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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, scott renna wrote:

> Yeah...so suprise still not working.  I was having
> issues with getting XP to format the usb drive as
> fat32. so i ran it through with partition magic,
> creating a fat32 partiton, but BSD isn't able to read
> it.
>
> So now I'm at a loss.  FreeBSD creates a FAT32
> partition for me and Windows can't read it and now the
> other way around it won't work.
>
> Any suggestions?

Post the mount command you're using and the errors you see, and it 
should be fixable.  Maybe also the output from fdisk for that drive.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA