wine users - Nov 2001 - Wine err: dosfs:DRIVE_ReadSuperblock The Filesystem is not FAT !!

Hi folks, I've been trying to get WINE to run on my new mandrake 8.0
box for _four_ _months_.

Every version of WINE gives me:

err:dosfs:DRIVE_ReadSuperblock The filesystem is not FAT !!
(device=/dev/hda1)

when I try to run an app that opens/closes files (e.g. notepad.exe). 
Software that doesn't use files runs fine (calc.exe)

I can read/write to the partition /dev/hda1 just fine... here's the
fstab entry:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat
user,exec,suid,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

Here's the wine config entry

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/win_c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "C"
"Device" = "/dev/hda1"
"FS" = "win95"

I expect this is a problem with my filesystem setup or my OS.  This
only happened with Mandrake 8.0 - GoLinux and RedHat worked fine.

I'm really frotzed in the head over this.  Please heal my perception.

arnim

min-ra <sminra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks, I've been trying to get WINE to run on my new mandrake 8.0
> box for _four_ _months_.
> Every version of WINE gives me:
> err:dosfs:DRIVE_ReadSuperblock The filesystem is not FAT !!
> (device=/dev/hda1)
> when I try to run an app that opens/closes files (e.g. notepad.exe). 
> Software that doesn't use files runs fine (calc.exe)
> I can read/write to the partition /dev/hda1 just fine... here's the
> fstab entry:
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat
> user,exec,suid,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> Here's the wine config entry
> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/mnt/win_c"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "C"
> "Device" = "/dev/hda1"
> "FS" = "win95"
First, this is not a severe problem.
Second, could you please send me the boot block of your partition ?
Just do a
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=bootblock count=1
and mail me bootblock.
Something seems to be different/broken in this bootblock.

Oh, and you normally don't really need to add a device for HDDs anyway,
as it isn't used too often normally.

As this is not a severe problem, I'd check other stuff for problems.

Good luck ! :)

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