[haiku-development] Re: FAT partitions / floppy disks supported?

  • From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:51:50 +0100

On 07/06/07, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone have either fat partitions or floppy disks working in
> haiku?  I need to transfer files after compiling from my laptop to a
> crappy old pc, then swap the harddrives so my other PC can run haiku,
> and the crappy one can log kernel output!  I can't use emulation as
> I'm messing with real hardware.  Haiku doesn't seem to see the other
> partitons (one Ext3, the other fat32).  The floppy drive seems to be
> missing in Haiku

The floppy driver should work, at least read-only, but it still doesn't
use DMA, seems pio access doesn't work everywhere.

FAT should work, but it probably won't show up in the Tracker mount
menu if the disk scanner isn't implemented, so you'll have to use
mountvolume or even mount directly:

mkdir /whatever; sync
mount -t fat /dev/disk/.../0_n /whatever

François.



Hi,

Thanks.  I tried manually mounting the partition, but it seams I can't
mount it as Haiku doesn't recognise the partition.  It was set up for
Fat16, then I tried Fat32/VFAT.  In each occasion I didn't have a
/0_n/ entry to mount...  Perhaps I have an issue with the partition
table?  It works fine in Linux...

Euan

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