I have a Fujitsu magneto-optical drive mounted in a box that's dual-booting
Windows XP and OpenSuse 10.2. The drive is unpartitioned. For a long time
it worked perfectly, but at some point since the 10.2 installation all the
files on the disk in the drive disappeared -- under Linux. They are still
visible under Windows, however. The drive is formatted as FAT32 (Windows) or
vfat (Linux). As far as I can ascertain, FAT32 and vfat are just two names
for the same thing.
I tried adding a file to the drive under Linux -- and that worked. The added
file was even visible under Windows. But nothing I tried -- including a
reformat of the drive -- made the files added under Windows visible under
Linux.
I tried reformatting under Linux with
mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda
The command produced no error messages but the drive became unreadable under
Linux -- but still readable under Windows.
I also tried using the Yast partitioner to turn the drive into a single big
partition. No luck there either -- the partitioner barfed with an error
message, something about the msdos label.
What the hell is going on here? I assume that whatever it is, it has to do
with a software change introduced since the introduction of 10.2.
Paul
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