From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 27 14:12:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5508616A4C9 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from extra.rwsystems.net (52.6b.d1c4.cidr.airmail.net [209.196.107.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BD243D60 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from extra.rwsystems.net (jwyatt@localhost.rwsystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by extra.rwsystems.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAREECL6014207; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:14:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from localhost (jwyatt@localhost) by extra.rwsystems.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id kAREEB3t014204; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:14:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) X-Authentication-Warning: extra.rwsystems.net: jwyatt owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:14:11 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" In-Reply-To: <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <20061127081008.O14126@extra.rwsystems.net> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Clayton Milos , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:12:53 -0000 On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:09 , Clayton Milos wrote: >>> I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g Western >>> Digital My Book). When I plug it in to my machine (RELENG_6 from about a >>> week ago), the system sees the device just fine: >>> >> I am very suprised at all that windows would allow you to format a 500G >> drive into a single 500G FAT32 partition. >> >> As far as I am aware windows 2000 and xp will only allow you to format up >> to a 32G dive with FAT32. Any bigger and it will force you to use NTFS. The >> other strange thing is tht you are trying to mount /dev/da0 and not >> /dev/de0s1. >> >> How did you format this drive ? > > It comes formatted FAT32. I bought one last week as well, and tried to mount > it to extract the included software before repartitioning. I finally mounted > it on an OSX box to copy the software to CDR. [ ... ] I had the same issue with a Fry's $99 special 320GB USB2/FW exernal HDD. Since I need to mount it with WinXP, Linux, and "GENERIC" FreeBSD, I was somewhat stuck. The way I got around it was to reformat it to ext2 and use the Win32 ext2fs driver from SourceForge. I considered NTFS, but the FreeBSD support for NTFS didn't look practical to use at the time - Jy@