RE: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11

[Kevin Krieser]

Actually, there is an extension to 4GB that NT used in the 4.0 days (maybe
earlier?).

Don't know if the Linux driver supports it.

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Subject: Re: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11


Greg KH wrote:
> I just bought a new USB/Firewire external drive.  It comes pre-formatted
> as FAT16 (or so shows fdisk) as one big 80Gb partition.  Unfortunately,
> Linux can't seem to mount this partition, and I get the following dmesg
> output when trying to mount the partition:
> 	FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> 	VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.

Well, according to my sources FAT16 cannot sustain any partition larger
than 2GiB, so 80GiB is probably a lot more than it can handle. Anyway,
sdb1 is lacking any type of header and sdb containt something, but not a
FAT header afaik. So probably theres just a partition table entry but
not formatted.


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