From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 23:50:21 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BF3C72 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428D4B54 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [172.17.17.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r1CNoDfJ055837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r1CNoDB2075932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r1CNoDn9075931; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Scott Ballantyne Subject: Re: NTFS 4 Terabyte drive problems on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20130212235013.GH5396@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20130212205323.2345.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130212205323.2345.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (email2.allantgroup.com [172.17.19.78]); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on email2.allantgroup.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:50:21 -0000 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