Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:09:53 +0200 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: "Richard Coleman" <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Coleman" <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:23 AM Subject: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 >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: > > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev > 2.00/1.06, addr 2 > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: uhid1: Western Digital External HDD, rev > 2.00/1.06, addr 2, iclass 8/6 > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: da0: <WD 5000YS External 106a> Fixed > Direct Access SCSI-4 device > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers > Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: da0: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: > 255H 63S/T 60801C) > > > But when I try to mount the drive (mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt), the > system gives the following error: > > Nov 26 22:06:41 neptune kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > I was surprised to see a file system limitation on FreeBSD that Windows > does not have. I will probably reformat the system to ufs2, but thought I > would mention this error message. I'm sure these drives will become > increasingly common. > > Richard Coleman > rcoleman@criticalmagic.com 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 ? -Clay
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