problems reading from vfat [SOLVED]

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

Hello, I have got Gentoo and Windows installed on my computer. Being in Gentoo I sometimes copy files to a FAT32 partition, so I can access these files when I switch to Windows too. But when I boot into Windows I cannot read the files. The files are listed, but when I try to open a file I get some error message, that it cannot be read or something like that. I have the same problem with my usb stick (Muvo TX). I can write data to the stick, but the stick doesn't seem to recognize the files (mp3s) and I cannot play them. But in both cases I can access and read files when I work in Gentoo.

kernel: 2.4.25-gentoo and vfat is compiled into the kernel
fstab:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat noauto,rw,users,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/muvo vfat noauto,users,rw,sync 0 0

There are no error messages at all when I copy the files in Gentoo.
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Rainmaker · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:53 pm Post subject:

add umask=000 to the "options" section of that fstab and try again
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massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

I tried it but with the same result as before. The other thing is, that it works sometimes, but I guess in one in 50 tries.
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massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

I've switched to kernel 2.6(.7) and I've got the same problem as before, at least the one with the usb stick (MP3 Player Muvo TX 256). I can access the stick and I can write to the stick and read the written data, but the stick cannot read (doesn't see?) the data (play the mp3s). I have an usb 2.0 extension pci card plugged in which I use for accessing the usb stick, digicam, printer etc...
The corresponding line in the fstab file hasen't changed since the first post here. Anyone any idea? I hate to copy the mp3s to the windows partition, boot into windows and copy the music there on the player

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LittleVampy · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 20

Do the files have a .mp3 extension in the filename?
My gentoo doesn't seem to add that, it can just recognize the file as a mp3, your software might be configured to look for a .mp3 extension.
Otherwise, no clue.
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fctk · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:32 am Post subject:

@ massimo
try this:
vfat defaults,umask=000

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

Thanks for your help, I finally found the problem. I actually never cared about the log message which showed up after I had mounted the stick:

fctk · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:04 am Post subject:

i'm happy you solved...
anyway pls put [SOLVED]...