Did you try using `vfat' instead of `auto' or `msdos'?
-- Alex
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:07:26PM -0500, David van Balen wrote:
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| 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.
|
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| David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Box 5054 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen
