From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 27 06:39:16 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 5236516A403; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:39:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcoleman@criticalmagic.com) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [64.74.207.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FC143D60; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:38:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rcoleman@criticalmagic.com) Received: from neptune.criticalmagic.com (adsl-074-229-078-253.sip.asm.bellsouth.net [74.229.78.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "neptune.criticalmagic.com", Issuer "Critical Magic Root Certificate" (verified OK)) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8296939808; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:39:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neptune.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079536D409; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:39:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <456A8812.8030708@criticalmagic.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:39:14 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Brueffer References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <20061127063352.GA1935@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <20061127063352.GA1935@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 06:39:16 -0000 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: 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