Nonmodified RH v5.2 /intel pentum 60 vfat corrupts files. When reading huge files (like mp3, or big ms word 97 documents) from a vfat harddrive, it's like truncated (only a few k's are read). (the same thing happens when i do a copy) --The interesting part is that when mounting the drive as msdos it works fine. (and also viewing file with mc when mounted as vfat) The problem ocoures also when copying files (like mp3's) from ext2 drive to vfat drive. (files gets corruptet (not truncated in this case)
The same (corruption while copying from ext2 to vfat) happens on RH6.0/2.2.5-15 (RH installed kernel): /dev/hdd4 on /mnt/zip type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) cp octave-2.0.14.tar.gz /mnt/zip sum octave-2.0.14.tar.gz ---> 51699 3729 sum /mnt/zip/octave-2.0.14.tar.gz ---> 02736 3729
there are zip disk issues with the kernels that shipped with 6.0. Please try the latest kernels from Raw Hide.