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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:01:40 -0700
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@roadrunner.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Establishing FAT32

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Harry,
I found an old 8MB Compact Flash drive in the box that my obsolete Canon
camera came in.

I stuck it in my old PNY Compact Flash card reader, and plugged it in to
a USB slot. I opened LVM from Local System, System Setup, Maintenance &
Installation Volume Manager. Then, I clicked on "Refresh Removeable
Media", and nothing appeared to happen. I decided that maybe I needed
to close LVM, since the refresh process uses LVM, too.

I tried to refresh again, and again, I didn't see a new drive in the
list. So I went really wild, and stuck an SD card into my SD card
reader, and refreshed with both front USB ports filled. This time, I
saw a new "H" drive, which was the SD card.

But when I opened LVM again, it showed that I had two of my four
removables "available".

From here, I was able to create a compatibility volume.

I have not yet formatted the volume; it is supposed to be possible on
OS/2, but much simpler under Windoze, so I'll switch over and do that.

I think that if you start by inserting your removable device to a USB
port, refresh removeable media, and then start LVM, you should be able
to do what I did.

Give it a shot.
Colin

Harry Motin wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I need some help establishing FAT32 on my system. Reading the FAT32.TXT
> documentation, it states that I should use LVM to establish a compatibility volume and assign it a drive letter. I am supposed to do this BEFORE installing FAT32, using WarpIn.
>
> I'm confused. LVM will not let me establish a compatibility volume on any of the 4 USB ports (drives) that show up. First, when I open LVM, it tells me that the 4 USB drives have incorrect partitioning information and that each one failed the last IO operation. And then, as I say I cannot create a compatibility volume on any of them.
>
> Any help here is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
> HCM
>
>

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