Subj : Re: FAT/dosfsck oddity
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Michael W Cocke
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 11:37 pm

On 17 Aug 2004 06:13:27 -0700, pandora_xero@hotmail.com (Pandora Xero)
wrote:

>I get a message like "dosfsck currently only supports 2 allocation
>tables, not 191"
>I have never had such an error message before, but dosfsck seems to be
>saying that for both of the FAT32 disks on this machine. both of said
>drives were formatted using MS-Windoze.
>I thought the FAT structure itself only supported 2 "Allocation
>Tables" if so, then why the hell am i getting a message like this?
>perhaps dosfsck is not reading something on the drives incorrectly?
>any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, as it seems the
>crapware "Scandisk" prog that comes with Windoze isn't seeing this
>problem, and is thus not doing anything to fix it.

Well, I'll take a swing at it.  Looks to me like something in the
volume header is corrupted, or else dosfsck has a bug in it.  Somehow
it thinks a DOS volume should have something other than 2 FATs, and 2
copies of the FAT is all that a DOS volume should/can have.

As for WHICH of those 2 possibilites it might be...  got me.  Backup
the dos vol & reformat it, then see what dosfsck thinks, and/or see if
there's a newer dosfsck.

Mike-

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