MSDOSFS_LARGE option -- problem solved

2005-04-20 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Hello, My "problem" with mounting a FAT32 80GB disk disappeared after I removed from my kernel config file option MSDOSFS_LARGE and replaced it with option MSDOSFS Thanks to those who responded to my earlier post. Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: msdosfs fat32 disk size limit in FreeBSD?

2005-04-19 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Maybe I should turn MSDOSFS_LARGE **OFF** ? I'll keep you posted. Brian Kevin Kinsey wrote: Brian M. Kincaid wrote: Hello, Is there an upper limit to the size of a FAT32 file system in the FreeBSD msdosfs code? I put in an 80GB drive recently and there have been problems. There is no pr

Re: msdosfs fat32 disk size limit in FreeBSD?

2005-04-19 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Yeah, I already had MSDOSFS_LARGE turned on, and I realize that it's supposed to be an issue if you have bigger than 128GB drives. I'm running 6.0-CURRENT. I'll keep looking... Brian Kevin Kinsey wrote: Brian M. Kincaid wrote: Hello, Is there an upper limit to the size of a FAT32

msdosfs fat32 disk size limit in FreeBSD?

2005-04-19 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Hello, Is there an upper limit to the size of a FAT32 file system in the FreeBSD msdosfs code? I put in an 80GB drive recently and there have been problems. There is no problem with small FAT32 file systems on floppies or flash memory cards. Any useful comments before I go back to the (working)

Re: emergent msdosfs problems, errors

2005-03-22 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Hello again, Ah Hah! I noticed the following in the "dmesg" output: atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xdca0-0xdcaf, 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xff7c-0xff7d,0xff7ff000-0xff7f irq 3 at device 7. 0 on pci2 atapci0: failed: rid 0x20 is memory, requested 4 Can anyone tell me what the "failed:" message m

emergent msdosfs problems, errors

2005-03-22 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Hello FreeBSD Collective Consciousness, I run a dual-boot FreeBSD 6.0-Current/WinXP Pro system. The FreeBSD NTFS driver can't write files, and can only read files less than 2GB in size, so I have been using a FAT32 disk (Drive D:) mounted using mount_msdosfs successfully for several years for fi

Re: Dual booting w/ two disks

2005-01-24 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Gabriel: What I would do is make sure that you can get Windows to boot up as the master disk before doing any further modifications to the boot blocks. If you get this far, then the FreeBSD Handbook procedure will handle the rest. If you can't get Windows to boot, there are several possible cau

Re: Dual booting w/ two disks

2005-01-24 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Yup, Windows needs to be the first disk. gabriel wrote: In my case, freebsd is on the master and windows is on the slave, you mean that it should be the other way around? On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:45:44 -0800, Brian M. Kincaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been running a dual boot syste

Re: Dual booting w/ two disks

2005-01-24 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
I have been running a dual boot system with Windows and FreeBSD on separate disks for several years. I use just the basic FreeBSD MBR boot program, installed using the procedure described in the Handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Windows XP need

Radeon 9800XT fails on FreeBSD with XFree86-4.4.0

2004-10-20 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
Does anyone have a Radeon 9800XT graphics card working with FreeBSD? If so, what's the trick? Thanks, Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.2.1-release iso images broken?

2004-03-12 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
. Did you >verify the MD5 hash of the ISO image after you downloaded it, and did >you do the same for the CD you burned? > >Kris How do you do the MD5 hash of a whole CD? Thanks, Brian -- Brian M. Kincaid PGP Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33656401

Two NICs, two ISPs, how to configure interfaces and mail?

2004-01-05 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
I have two NICs, connecting to two completely separate ISPs, with two different IP addresses and DNS names. I would like to find out what to put into rc.conf to configure the two interfaces, and how to arrange for localhost to use one of the interfaces and mail (postfix) to use the other. Tha

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2003-04-05 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
--- Begin Message --- Hi, You are listed as the maintainer of the ports /usr/ports/security/avmailgate. The Makefile lacks a "COMMENT=" line, and breaks the "make index" function. The fix is trivial, but you have to do it. Thanks, Brian -- Brian M. Kincaid PGP Key: ht

Re: ATAPI Zip Drive. Please Help!

2002-10-24 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
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Re: A curious dmesg output entry

2002-10-16 Thread Brian M. Kincaid
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