From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 06:18:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1116516A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED01143D36 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from chowder.dons.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBJEI6E7071629; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:48:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Tony Maher Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:48:04 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200312191013.hBJADxW6067918@dt.home> In-Reply-To: <200312191013.hBJADxW6067918@dt.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312200048.05152.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb2 and external hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:18:18 -0000 On Friday 19 December 2003 20:43, Tony Maher wrote: > Trying to mount it and got: > > Dec 19 08:35:36 k9 kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > Someone else previously reported this on the list. > So turned it into a UFS disk, mounted it and it worked perfectly. FYI there is a patch floating around that should fix that. I received it but was unable to test it as the 200Gb drive is out of my hands now :( I'm pretty sure the author is Tim J. Robbins so if you get in contact with him he should be able to provide the diff (or if that times out I have a copy) > I was a little worried given the 1MB/s message but it transferred the file > from Sun server via ftp to my laptop Compaq N610c (usb2 but no firewire) > and had transfer rate hitting either wire maximum (100Mb/s full duplex) > or CPU limits (Sun server was busy). Wish my USB2.0 worked that well.. Firewire works very nicely on the ones I have though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5