Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:33:29 +0200 From: Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff@web.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3 TB USB disk Message-ID: <1413045209.5590.5.camel@puma.das.netz> In-Reply-To: <AB8E912C-F804-47EC-9EB0-187909180487@alogis.com> References: <5438FAC6.3000807@chef-ingenieur.de> <AB8E912C-F804-47EC-9EB0-187909180487@alogis.com>
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On Sa, 2014-10-11 at 10:26 +0000, Holger Kipp wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > On 11.10.2014, at 11:46, "Thomas Krause" <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I connected a 3TB USB disk to a FreeBSD 9.3 server. The drive is > > recognized as 2 disks (da0: 2 TB and da1: 1TB). What is > > wrong here? > > You might need to convert the disk to GPT. It might also be the case > that the USB disk enclosure itself does not support larger disks. It's most probably the controller chip in the enclosure that cannot handle the size of the disk. Seen that myself once, the enclosure was not specified for any disk size. After buying the same model but looking for a specifiaction saying "up to 4 GB" anything worked nicely having one disk wiht full capacity. -- Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff@web.de>
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