Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:23:14 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com>
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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. Richard Coleman rcoleman@criticalmagic.com
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