Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:20:42 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: nick holley <nick.holley@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.3-STABLE and 200GB USB2 drive Message-ID: <419696CA.4010902@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <40200b1704111219314dba8c72@mail.gmail.com> References: <b0641e4b0411110919998d422@mail.gmail.com> <40200b17041112022467e4dac2@mail.gmail.com> <b0641e4b04111202541e28ccff@mail.gmail.com> <40200b1704111219314dba8c72@mail.gmail.com>
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nick holley wrote: >On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:54:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:19:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>That is my problem. I have updated my system to 5.3, and I tried to >>>>mount my USB2.0 drive (with 200GB), and the system can't mount it. I >>>>had heard that this FBSD version was able to mount this kind of >>>>drives, it is true? In that case, what I have to do? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Can you be a little more specific? What errors (if any) do you >>>receive? Does the system detect the drive? etc. >>> >>>Nick >>> >>> >>> >>mountmsdosfs(): disk too big (or something like this at this moment I >>dont remember) >>My systems detects the unit, in /dev/da0s1 >>#: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /internet (/internet directory exists) >> >> > >I'm want to say that your problem is exactly what it says. I think >that FreeBSD can only deal with a fat32 partition up to a certain size >(128GB?). You might also try splitting it into a couple of different >partitions or reformatting as UFS if you don't need windows >compatability. > >Nick > > Also might want to keep careful track of what is going on with development; one of the goals for 5.3-RELEASE, I thought, was merging in some changes to msdosfs contributed by the nice folks at Apple; but I've not checked lately to see if that was done or whatnot ... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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