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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

Sorry, I should have replied to the list. As it is, Sindi asks and says 
more things I can't answer.

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Sheldon replied to Sindi:
> 
> >> What is vfat?
> >
> > Some kind of file system.
> >
> > You run into it in places like
> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt
> >
> > That worked in BL2, but not in BL3, I think.
> >
> > One has to use msdos instead, as in
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /mnt
> >
> > fat probably means  File Allocation Table , which is how MS-DOS and some
> > others keep track of where on the disks the data belonging to filenames
> > is.
> >
> > Sheldon

Sindi in turn replied:

> Are vfat and msdos the same thing?  We have a zip disk that is already
> formatted for DOS.  I found a 160K download at the IOMEGA site by following
> links to simple drivers/DOS/ATAPI that covers atapi, ide and a few other
> types I never heard of.  remark out all but the one you have in a file
> called guest.in after unpacking the file, then run 'guest' and it loads the
> .sys file (aspiatap.sys) and itself (guest.exe) as TSRs and you can treat
> the drive as another IDE drive (like a DOS IDE drive or CD-ROM driv).  Guest
> told us our drive was E:.  The drive works so now we can try it in linux,
> which I am sure will be ten times as complicated.
> 
> The guest program is supposed to also work for external drives.  Maybe it
> treats them as floppy drives or maybe my informant got it wrong when he said
> floppy and meant hard drive, but the HOWTO was also talking about compiling
> a kernel with ide-floppy support.  For the external scsi drive I also need
> to get the correct driver for my scsi card, which is actual scsi rather than
> atapi-emulation-scsi.  Maybe it is one of the .sys files included by iomega.