On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a FAT partition under Linux that I originally created
> (formatted as fat16) under WinNT so that I could put the LM6.1 install
> files on it. It's the third partition on my master HDD which is 4.3G (the
> partition itself is about 1.4G).
> It appears to mount ok at boot and I can cd to it, but when I run an ls on
> it, I get a screenful of "Directory sread (sector 0x1db) failed" errors.
> When running X, I just get an empty directory listing (i.e. "Total 0" with
> ls -l). Yes, the LM6.1 files are still on there so I should get something
> when running ls...
> My /etc/fstab entry looks like this:
>
> /dev/hda3 /mnt/mp3 auto user,umask=0222 0
> 0
>
> I originally tried it with "msdos" instead of "auto" and had the same
> problem.
>
Try specifying type VFAT instead of "auto" or MSDOS. Just 'cause it's
a 16-bit FAT doesn't mean it's an MSDOS filesystem. VFAT also works
for Win95's Long Filenames.
John
