Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:39:14 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <456A8812.8030708@criticalmagic.com> In-Reply-To: <20061127063352.GA1935@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <20061127063352.GA1935@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Richard Coleman 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: >> >> 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. >> > > Please rebuild your kernel with "options MSDOSFS_LARGE" and try again. > > - Christian Ahh, good to know. I hadn't seen that one before. Thanks. Richard Coleman rcoleman@criticalmagic.com
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