On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:45:47PM +0200, David Vasek wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > >> A 4k-sector NTFS filesystem > >>can't be mounted as of 5.3/i386. > > > >At least one person is using a 4K-sector disk with NTFS partition(s) > >without problems. So I suspect something local to your setup is causing > >the problem by traversing new and exciting code paths. > > The filesystem was on external USB hard drive, as it came from the > manufacturer, which is HGST, formerly Hitachi GST, now part of WD. > The filesystem didn't work with OpenBSD 5.3/i386, but Windows XP > seemed happy with it. The filesystem was empty and from original 4 > TB it could be compressed with bzip2 to under 3 MB. I can send the > compressed image to you if you want to play with it and have extra > disk space. > > Regards, > David >
No need. I've got my own 4K-byte sector, 4TB USB disks with NTFS partitions. And an absolute disinterest in NTFS. :-) .... Ken