I've just installed Mandriva 2009.1, having gotten sick of Ubuntu, or boo-boo. Before anyone says it's a known bug, I've applied all the known fixes and this apparently isn't it.
I have a conglomeration of hard drives and quad boot the machine, so mine is not exactly a common system.
I have 4 DOS 6.22 volumes, 4 W98 volumes, and 3 W2k volumes in this thing, totalling six hard drives. The kicker is, I have NO problem accessing the NTFS volumes. I have issues with the VFAT volumes! They refuse to mount until I use the partition manager, Disk Drake, to mount them!