Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS 4 Terabyte drive problems on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20130212235013.GH5396@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20130212205323.2345.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20130212205323.2345.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 12), Scott Ballantyne said: > Hi, > > I'm trying to mount a 4 TB drive (The Seagate Backup-Plus) on FreeBSD > 9.0 Generic, using > > mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt > > It fails with: > > g_vfs_done() da1s1[READ(offset=0, length=1042)]error=22 > mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1 bad argument That's a strange length (1042). I would have expected a multiple of the device blocksize (4096 in the case of the Backup Plus). > However, I can mount a 2 TB ntfs drive with no problem, using the same > command, and the 4TB drive checks out fine in Windows. > > Does anyone know if this limitation exists, and if there is a > work-around? I only need READ access to this drive. You can try the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port; the ntfs code in the base system hasn't had much work done on it lately. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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