Hi Peoples
I have a 120gb fat32 harddrive (one partition) that I used to use as my data drive when i was using windows. however, due to the amount of data I have on there (most of it reasonably important) I didn't format it and backup, because I knew linux supported fat32. However whenever I try to use the drive, (especially opening files through X apps (openoffice,gtkpod,etc...)) It hangs the computer, sometimes it pulls through after a while, and then works normally for a bit.
heres the error message from $ dmesg
Code:
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=178328, high=0, low=178328, sector=178328
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 178328
FAT: Directory bread(block 178265) failed
I am using Slackware 10 Kernel 2.6.10
Redness