Found slave hard drive, but can't open folders or files

[E.L. & J.H. Maroon]

In an earlier e-mail, I mentioned that I couldn't get
the machine to see my slave drive, which was formated
for Windows 98. Well, after some reading and trying I
was able to do so in the following manner:

 mkdir /ddrive

 mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /ddrive

So, now it sees it. However, I can't open files or
folders. I even tried to open a txt file with the
OpenOffice text editor, but still no go. I then tried
to save a test text file to the drive, but that didn't
work, either. 

What am I doing wrong?

Be gentle. I have been using Linux for a total of 3
days now.

--Jim Maroon 

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