[Discussion] WIN32 Driver

[jim.scott at scottelectronic.com]

Okay, here goes... 
 
I have ECS 1.2 and I decided that I would try and look at a little 1G thumb drive I got.  It, of course, is formatted for a Windoze   
machine, and so I can't read it.  I thinks to myself, I need one of those Win32 IFS drivers to be in my CONFIG.SYS - so I do that. 
 
Well, at boot time when it loads, it decides to *abort* since it cannot find a WIN32 partition.  How stupid is that!!! 
 
No information in the books I have, and not any help on the driver, so does anyone know if there is a way to force it to stay resident. 
 
I'm not even sure it will do the job :-( 
 
IFS=F:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS  /CACHE:2048 
REM orig IFS=F:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /Q /CACHE:2048 
 
I had tried NTFS without success: 
REM 3-19-07 Enabled NTFS.IFS and modify it some. 
REM 3-23-07 Disable NTFS.IFS which I had enabled 3-19-07 
REM old IFS=F:\ecs\boot\ntfs.ifs /RO:* 
 
So what is so difficult about using the WIN32 file system, or the NTFS (is read only) file system in os/2? 
 
 
Any ideas? 
 
JIm Scott 
 
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