[NTLUG:Discuss] FAT32 no longer supported FS???

[Leroy Tennison]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> ./aal wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a 40gb drive from a old laptop that I bought a enclosure for and use
>>> , never had a problem with it auto mounting FAT32 formatted file system in
>>> SuSE .
>>> What is the device ID ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Stephen Davidson <
>>> gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Greetings.
>>>>
>>>> Jan 31 11:33:28 sda64 kernel: FAT: "fat=32" option is obsolete, not
>>>> supported now
>>>>
>>
>>
>> zgrep FAT /proc/config.gz
>>
>> what is CONFIG_FAT_FS set to?  Y or N
>> what is CONFIG_VFAT_FS set to?  Y or N
>>
>>
>> which kernel are you booting?  (uname -r)
>>
>> do your sources match? (ls -l /usr/src/linux)
>>
>>
> 
> - From the 11.0 system;
> steve at blue:~> zgrep FAT /proc/config.gz
> CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
> # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
> CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
> CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
> CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
> 
> Sources BETTER match -- this is a "Stock Install" using the SuSE
> installer....
> 
> steve at blue:~> uname -r
> 2.6.25.20-0.1-pae
> steve at blue:~> ls -l /usr/src/linux
> ls: cannot access /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory
> steve at blue:~> ls -l /usr/src
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-28 19:49 linux-2.6.25.20-0.1-obj
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2009-01-28 09:48 packages
> steve at blue:~>
> 
> 
> And then from my 10.3 system;Jan 31 16:21:14 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: new
> high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: new device found, idVendor=0bc2,
> idProduct=0502
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: new device strings: Mfr=5,
> Product=2, SerialNumber=1
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: Product: ST94811U2-RK
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Seagate
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 33504D304D514147
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7
> Jan 31 16:21:15 sda64 kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle
> before scanning
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST350064
> 1A               3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte
> hardware sectors (500108 MB)
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 10 00 00 00
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
> write through
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte
> hardware sectors (500108 MB)
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 10 00 00 00
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
> write through
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel:  sdc: sdc1
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> Jan 31 16:21:16 sda64 kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
> 
> And then, when I manually mount using (as automount does not work on
> this device -- although it did on SuSE 10.0);
> sda64:~ # mount -t vfat -o fat=32,shortname=win95 /dev/sdc1 /media/SEAGATE
> Syslog shows;
> Jan 31 16:21:23 sda64 kernel: FAT: "fat=32" option is obsolete, not
> supported now
> 
> But the drive does mount.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
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What version of SuSE did you say this was?  I'm running 10.3 and patched 
to current to the best of my knowledge.  I created a fat32 partition on 
my drive and am able to mount it just fine.