Subject: RE: Putting a disklabel on MSDOS disk (without killing partition)
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: John A. Maier - MIS dept. <johnam@mail.kemper.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/30/1998 10:00:57
I think I know what is going on.

The drive he is trying to access is FAT32.

I ran fdisk (NetBSD) and the partition was unknown.

I tried to mount a FAT32 drive at home at it failed also.  However when I
tried to mount a FAT16 drive, worked!

# works for FAT16
mount -t msdos /dev/wd2e /mnt

# does not work for FAT32
mount -t msdos /dev/wd1e /mnt

I even partition a drive into two parts FAT32(Win98) and FFS, I still
couldn't access the FAT32 partition.

I booted a install floppy and was able to mount FAT16 but not FAT32.

So, after all of that, if NetBSD 1.3.2 supports FAT32, what's the trick?

jam