Mounting FAT partitions on Solaris 8

Does Solaris 8 support mounting Windows FAT 16/32 partitions
from IDE drives on an Intel platform. The PCFS type seems
to be reserved for dos floppies.

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/cXdXpX /mnt should work.
Where c = 0 or 1 (0 for primary , 1 for secondary ide)
d = 0 or 1 (0 for master , 1 for slave )
p = 0 .. 4 (number of the partition)
You can find more info in the Solaris x86 FAQ
There used to be an issue where you couldnt mount a partition that was formated under WinNT but I dont think that is still an issue under Solaris 8 x86

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