I solved it the same way Johannes did, actually starting from Ged's earlier suggestion:
Why not try formatting the drive with more that one partition?
So here is what worked (and what did not, FYI) after quite a bit of fumbling:
- I deleted all partitions (/dev/sda1 and 2 that I had just made) with fdisk
- I made one FAT16 (code 6) partition /dev/sda1 with fdisk
- I formatted /dev/sda1 *from* *Linux* with mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1
This is the opposite of what I've always done and heard recommended for hard drives & windows (i.e., "if this disk is going to run windows, format it with windows to be on the safe side"), but this is what worked.
NOTE: at this point (when I have one still unformatted /dev/sda1 partition) if I instead of formatting the key from Linux reboot w/ W98 and format it, windows can read and write from/to the key *but* the key always says "error - reformat key" and cannot play any MP3 file!!!
Then I can use both Linux and W98 without any file being erased, idem Johannes (-;.
From Linux I
mount -tvfat -oumask=0000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey
to access the key. FYI, if I instead mount -tmsdos -oumask=0000 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey it also works but of course the filenames are 8+3 uppercase.
Many thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Have a good day!
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Laurent. PS (off): Ged, what does this "73" stand for (-; ??
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