[X-Unix] "Macintosh Compatibility" of Flash Disks

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Jerry Krinock wrote:

>on 05/01/02 20:30, Alexandre Gauthier at supernaut at underwares.org wrote:
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>>I would like to mention that I have seen some flash based USB devices,
>>when formatted in either FAT16/FAT32 (I don't remember which, sorry, I
>>will try again later) would not mount on the desktop, but would work
>>fine when mounted manually with fstype "vfat", as expected.
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>Alexandre, what do you mean by mount "manually"?  Do you mean to open
>Terminal and type the command
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>mount -a
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# mount -t vfat /dev/<device> /Volumes/some_mount_point

I think it had something to do with OS X trying to mount it using the 
"fat32" (bigdos?) driver while I used vfat...