rkrishna,
Thanks for the reply. I changed "defaults" in fstab to match your suggestion. I used "defaults" because that's how I entered it in fstab in Slack on my former primary hdd (the 20GB drive) and it worked fine (still does). /mnt/win98 does exist.
This kernel is not a custom kernel. It's just as the installation configured it and I haven't altered it in any way.
hda1 is fat32, in fact I just checked it again to be sure.
Here is what I get for output from "dmesg |grep hda1"
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hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
I created the directory /mnt/test and tried to mount /dev/hda1 there with "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/test" and got this again:
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems
While typing this, it occurred to me that the only difference between the configyration on this hdd and its predecessor is the presence of the Red Hat partition. I don't know if that could have something to do with it or not. I am able to read the fat32 partition on hdb just fine and when I boot to Win98 on hda, I can see the Win98 partition on hdb. Hmmm. Thanks for the input. This is a damn puzzler.