Problem to save file on the hard disk! What I have to set to do it ?

[Matteo]

I have two FAT partition;
- one is hda2, is for " windows xp " and is FAT32(is about 20GB), 
- another one is hda1, is a free memory FAT16(is about 2.8 GB).
I can mount hda2 and hda1 and  write a file on them without problem. 

What's the problem about your opinion?
May be I have to set some special options in my Grub(my linux bootloader) when I
have to launch the example?

Really thanks in advance.

Matteo



Scrive "Thomas Doerfler (nt)" <Thomas.Doerfler at imd-systems.de>:

> Matteo,
> 
> it really looks like a difficult case to me :-((
> 
> What is confusing me: Your FAT partition has a size of about 20GB. This
> is MUCH to big for a FAT16 partition, so I would guess, that a program
> that is asked to format the disk should complain about this.
> 
> In your last posts, you have sent me information about what is written
> in the partition table for partition hda1. For clarity, I have to ask
> again: did you also:
> 
> - format the partition
> - mount it under linux to some mount point
> - write files to it
> 
> and everything without problems?
> 
> wkr,
> Thomas.
> 
> 
> Matteo schrieb:
> > Thomas,
> > 
> > Yes I can access to windows from linux. 
> > I created hda1 using gparted formatting hda1 as FAT16. 
> > Infact if I use gparted, like you can see, it says that is FAT16, but if I
> use
> > only "cfdisk" says that is only linux.
> > I try to see my memory using also qtparted and It says me that hda1 is
> FAT16
> > partition. 
> > I don't know why "cfdisk -l /dev/hda" don't shows that hda1 is FAT16.
> > But both gparted both qtparted program shows that hda1 is a FAT16 !
> > 
> > Have you some idea about my problem ?
> > 
> > Really Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Matteo
> > 
> > 
> > Scrive "Thomas Doerfler (nt)" <Thomas.Doerfler at imd-systems.de>:
> > 
> > 
> > Matteo,
> > 
> > I am a bit confused, your listing shows, that /dev/hda1 is a Linux ext3
> > partition, but you write that gparted shows it as FAT16. But /dev/hda2
> > looks fine in the partition table. can you access the filesystem on
> > /dev/hda2 from linux?
> > 
> > Thomas.
> > 
> > Matteo schrieb:
> > 
> >>Ok this is the result of the command "fdisk -l /dev/hda"
> > 
> >>Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> >>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
> >>Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >>Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >>/dev/hda1            2678        3014     2706952+  83  Linux
> >>/dev/hda2               1        2677    21502971    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> >>/dev/hda3            3015        4784    14217525   83  Linux
> >>/dev/hda4            4785        4864      642600    5  Esteso
> >>/dev/hda5            4785        4864      642568+  82  Linux swap /
> > 
> > Solaris
> > 
> > 
> >>looking with gparted I have the result that, hda1 is "FAT16", hda2 is
> > 
> > "FAT32",
> > 
> >>hda3 is "ext3", hda4 is "exetended", hda5 is "linux swap".
> > 
> >>I created hda1 with FAT16 thinking to resolve the problem, but from the
> > 
> > fileio
> > 
> >>example I have always the same error, 
> >>" fsmount: mounting of "/dev/hda1" to "/mnt/hda1" failed: No such file or 
> >>directory " but now hda1 is FAT16 so it could be right for RTEMS, but it
> > 
> > isn't.
> > 
> >>Why ?
> > 
> >>Can you help me ?
> > 
> >>Thanks advanced
> > 
> >>MAtteo
> > 
> 
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