Cant write to a external firewire drive with knoppix

[thedreampolice]

I used qpart to make a fat32 partition on the drive (I needs windows machines to see it) and when I try to move data to it I cant, Now I am booting off the knoppix cd to do this. But I don't understand why I can format and repartition it but cant actually move data to it. The windows machines can write to it just fine. I am running knoppix 3.4 any thoughts?

[Icarus]

How are you trying to mount the drive?

try this...
When you boot the system with Knoppix, leave the drive unplugged.
Open a terminal and plug in the drive to the firewire, then check dmesg in the terminal to see if it was detected.

I don't know firewire at all, but if it's anything like USB you should see some messages about the device that was just connected (USB would hook up to something like /dev/sda1)
Find the device ID and type
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrom

Change the above to the real device name and a valid mount point.
You should have it mounted now or if it didn't you'll see an error

[Hayl]

does it work as root and not as a regular user?

if so, you have permissions issues.

your fstab should have the user option in it, and you could also try putting in umask=000