Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:54:44 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <476155C4.7050905@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4761564C.8010305@studsvik.com> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> <476015D9.6070604@onetel.com> <47614A15.2060003@gmail.com> <4761564C.8010305@studsvik.com>
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Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: >> Hi, >> >> have you tried this before: >> >> #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb >> > > I hadn't initially, but I have now: > > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument > > And dmesg: > > > umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <WD 1600BEV External 1.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device > da0: 40.000MB/s transfers > da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > > > ...which seems to suggest the drive is to big for mount_msdosfs > to work. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Did you see my reply the other day? I don't know how it is now but there used to be an upper limit on FAT32 filesystem size in FreeBSD, 128gb I believe. You could get round it by recompiling your kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE but there were some limitations on it's use. I'm sure google would find further info. Chris
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