[Discussion] Fat32 driver in OS/2

[Matt Walsh]

I have the latest Fat32 driver and it does do what you mention saying
it is not loaded, but when I insert my 256 Mb flash stick it is
recognized by LVM as a removable drive and the Fat 32 partition is able
to be read and written to.  So give it a further try.
my config.sys has :
IFS=C:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /CACHE:2048 /H /Q /EAS
CALL=C:\OS2\CACHEF32.EXE /S


hope this helps.
Matt W.

>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? 

Matt Walsh...........Shootin' & Computin' in Rio Rancho, NM
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