From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 23:20:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8F816A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B3843D39 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:20:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:17:00 -0600 Message-ID: <419696CA.4010902@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:20:42 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nick holley References: <40200b17041112022467e4dac2@mail.gmail.com> <40200b1704111219314dba8c72@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40200b1704111219314dba8c72@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2004 23:17:00.0530 (UTC) FILETIME=[E0D29D20:01C4C9D6] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.3-STABLE and 200GB USB2 drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:20:35 -0000 nick holley wrote: >On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:54:40 +0100, Darksidex wrote: > > >>>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:19:40 +0100, Darksidex 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.