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

[Thomas Doerfler (nt)]

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Matteo,

one other question:

After reading the partition table, the "fileio" sample will print a
result code. Can you tell me what is printed there as a result?

wkr,
Thomas.

Matteo schrieb:
> 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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