Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:14:11 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: Clayton Milos <clay@milos.co.za>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 Message-ID: <20061127081008.O14126@extra.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> <87807352-74B6-441C-8FF7-B11B0BD6AA31@ece.cmu.edu>
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:09 , Clayton Milos 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: >>> >> I am very suprised at all that windows would allow you to format a 500G >> drive into a single 500G FAT32 partition. >> >> As far as I am aware windows 2000 and xp will only allow you to format up >> to a 32G dive with FAT32. Any bigger and it will force you to use NTFS. The >> other strange thing is tht you are trying to mount /dev/da0 and not >> /dev/de0s1. >> >> How did you format this drive ? > > It comes formatted FAT32. I bought one last week as well, and tried to mount > it to extract the included software before repartitioning. I finally mounted > it on an OSX box to copy the software to CDR. [ ... ] I had the same issue with a Fry's $99 special 320GB USB2/FW exernal HDD. Since I need to mount it with WinXP, Linux, and "GENERIC" FreeBSD, I was somewhat stuck. The way I got around it was to reformat it to ext2 and use the Win32 ext2fs driver from SourceForge. I considered NTFS, but the FreeBSD support for NTFS didn't look practical to use at the time - Jy@
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