I don't know, but the simple answer I would think of is that with cylinder groups, related items are kept together.

This is a very good point...you will need to dertermine what type of file systems you are trying to access. The default with most linux distros I believe is ext3. There is a windows driver you can...

can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab file for pclinux ?

Not sure what you have tried yet but the first thing I would do is disable any firewalls and make sure client for microsoft networks is enabled in the network properties. Next thing, go to the...