From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 27 06:21:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D12016A403 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F0443D45 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:20:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix, from userid 953) id 7C8A4B2; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:21:27 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on filt2.ece.cmu.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=no version=3.1.4 Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F51AE; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:21:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:21:24 -0500 To: Clayton Milos , FreeBSD Stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:21:29 -0000 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