Steve Wendt wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>   
>> The secret for me was to buy a copy of both NetDrive and the VFAT Plugin
>> for it, that will write LFNs to the VFAT card
>>     
>
> I've been curious about this - are you happy with how this works?  Is it 
> pretty seamless?  In other words, do you just connect the USB drive and it 
> automatically mounts it correctly, or do you have to jump through some 
> hoops to get it to do the right thing?
>
>   
Hi Steve,

I wish I'd taken "someone's" advice a long time back, and purchased NDFS 
earlier!
Once one has set up the Virtual Drive-root to hang the peripheral 
drives-off, everything seems to be very smooth and seamless - if one 
mounts a non-VFAT USB-drive(e.g. JFS/HPFS), it is accessible both from 
the NDFS and under its original volume-letter, whereas with the 
VFAT-formatted USB-drives, they are no longer accessible under their 
normal volume-letter [Disk is in use/locked or whatever ...]. I had to 
play around a little bit [never did get to actually use the Toronto 
Virtual File System! :-) (TVFS)], to learn about adding connections - 
detaching them etc. If one shuts down with virtual mount points 
populated or at least not removed from the tree, then they are there 
again after bootup.

There is a functional demo of NDFS (additional features are unlocked by 
registration), and there is a Demo VFAT plugin available that reads but 
not writes - adequate to retrieve LFN stuff off VFAT.

If your basic system is pretty static - minimal drive/volume-letter 
shuffling, then your USB-devices will nearly always have the same 
default volume-letter - if you're plugging in 3 USB-disks at one time - 
in order to have the NDFS virtual drive's branches aligned, it's 
necessary to plug-them in in the same sequence - otherwise the 
mount-points don't match up with the descriptive name one gives them, 
when created - I name mine like "HP-Lexar 512MB", "Legend
512MB", 
'A-Data 2GB" etc.

Give it a try!

Regards,
Mike



 
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