Re: LNX-BBC with Compact Flash

Slaughter, Dale writes:

> I'm trying LNX-BBC 2.1 and an attempting to use it with a compact flash 128M
> card in a laptop .  I formatted it with Win 2000 as NTFS and copied three
> software package files to it .  I booted LNX-BBC did the following, but the
> device was read-only :
> 
> 
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
> 
> 	which assigned /dev/hde
> 
> fdisk /dev/hde and then 'p' to print partition table
> 
> 	which showed /dev/hde1 with 980 cylinders
> 
> 
> cd ~
> cd /mnt/discs
> mkdir shared
> cd /
> mount -v -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hde1 /mnt/discs/shared
> mount
> 	which showed it was mounted as ro NOT rw

Yes, it's solely a matter of our NTFS driver, which lacks write
support.  Linux should get NTFS write support in the future, but
currently you will not be able to write to any NTFS volume on any
media with the LNX-BBC.  vfat would be a better choice right now if
you want to go back and forth.

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