I wrote: > In a partition slightly smaller than 8MB, formatted FAT12, clusters are 4 sectors. There is one free cluster. Windows XP can create a file of size 2048 bytes. Linux cannot create a file. Today Linux can do it. cat >/mnt/sdc2/my2k [junk] [ctrl-d] I don't remember what command failed a few days ago. Anyway it doesn't look like a driver problem. Sorry for the disturbance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html