FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

[scott renna]

Yeah...so suprise still not working.  I was having
issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as
fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic,
creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read
it.

So now I'm at a loss.  FreeBSD creates a FAT32
partition for me and Windows can't read it and now the
other way around it won't work.

Any suggestions?

--- Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote:
> 
> > I created a FAT32 parition on the external drive
> from
> > /stand/sysinstall and dropped some files onto it. 
> I
> > then moved it over to the win box to see if it
> could
> > see it and sadly no.  Is there a way to set up
> > pseudo-drive assignments from FreeBSD on a FAT32
> > partition so that Windows can see it?
> 
> Windows can be rather stupid about what it thinks is
> allowed.  Create 
> the FAT32 partition with Windows, and FreeBSD should
> have no problem 
> reading and writing to it.
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
> 


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