On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Haik Aftandilian wrote:
Thanks. I gave this a try. I ran into a couple of problems though.
First, the 4GB file limit on the fat32 LBA partition. I can workaround
this, no problem.
Inherent in the design - no way around it.
The second problem I ran into was mounting the partition in Solaris. I
think this is because I just created one primary partition on the fat32
drive, but I should have created a logical partition within that. Does
that sound right? I followed the tips on
Shouldn't be necessary. PCFS can mount primary partitions, logical
partitions and even unpartitioned media (provided for the latter exists a
device, which on a SPARC may sometimes be an issue).
Are you using Solaris/x86 ? If so, try the ...p[1-4] devices as well as
...p0:[c-z] and/or ...p0:<number> - the biggest problem with PCFS is that
figuring out which "device" (HAH; don't get me started ...) actually must
be mounted :(
http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#9.10 regarding mounting dos
partitions, but I kept getting an error message saying not a valid FAT
partition.
What device specifiers (the horrid "PCFS drive letter" thingies) did you
use, and to what effect ?
Using Linux, I have no problems mounting and accessing the fat32
partition. I created the partition using cfdisk and "mkdosfs -F 32".
What device name do you use on Linux ?
As said, should work. I'm curious to see the errors. And, if you'd like to
submit us a bug report, I'd need to get the partition table and the first
few sectors of the fat partition; extract those on Linux (the part. table
via dd if=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=128, the first few sectors of the fat
partition via dd if=/dev/hdX[1-15] bs=512 count=128, 'X' == the disk you
use, [1-15] the number of the partition you mount as FAT on Linux). With
that info, I can try loopback here and investigate what PCFS does with
such a table.
Bye,
FrankH.
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