[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem to mount USB memory stick

[Wayne Walker]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:59:02PM -0600, Bob Netherton wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 20:39 -0600, David Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmmm - that's interesting.  We have an MP3 player that Linux won't
> > > mount.  I wonder if that's the same problem?   Of course it
> > would
> > > probably be a really, really bad idea to reformat an MP3
> > player's
> > > internal drive.
> 
> You'd be able to use it from Linux, but it wouldn't be much of an MP3
> player, would it :-)    And certainly, don't do this to an iPod!!!!!!!
> 
> > > 
> > > Why can't Linux
> > mount FAT16?
> > 
> > Haven't been following this thread from the
> > beginning - so this might have already been stated......sure Linux can
> > mount FAT16, etc
> 
> Ummmm, to do so would require a file system driver.   Mine doesn't have
> a FAT16 driver.
I think they called the FAT16 driver "msdos"

/lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/fs/msdos/msdos.ko


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