Just in case any of you cared :) I found out the problem with the weirdo
fat partition I was having. The problem was that the FAT was too short (
too few sectors) and the very paranoid (thats a good thing tho) part of the
code that found it set an error flag. For some reason, the fat was 10
sectors short. just reformatting under 95 didnt do anything because it
took the hint of the previous fat size and used that, SO I backed up all
the crap on that partition onto another partition, dd WIPED the first 58
megs of it (altho zero'ing just the first few sectors probably would have
done the same thing) THEN reformatted it under windows 95, and it created
it with the correct # of fat sectors. Whew-- what a piece of crap [windows'
fs driver is]. Norton, too -- it didn't pick up sheeat, either.
-Seth