Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:21:24 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Clayton Milos <clay@milos.co.za>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop>
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On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:09 , Clayton Milos wrote: >> 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: >> > 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 ? It comes formatted FAT32. I bought one last week as well, and tried to mount it to extract the included software before repartitioning. I finally mounted it on an OSX box to copy the software to CDR. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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