Hi Richard, 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.
Looking at /sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c seems to hint the existance of options MSDOSFS_LARGE; this avoids the error message and will let you mount the disk. Perhaps it's time for an update of msdosfs(5) ? (I've CC-ed Tom Rhodes for this). Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!" "In the flesh, on the phone and in your account..." - BOFH #3
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