Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:48:04 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Tony Maher <tonymaher@optushome.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb2 and external hard disk Message-ID: <200312200048.05152.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200312191013.hBJADxW6067918@dt.home> References: <200312191013.hBJADxW6067918@dt.home>
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On Friday 19 December 2003 20:43, Tony Maher wrote: > Trying to mount it and got: > > Dec 19 08:35:36 k9 kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > Someone else previously reported this on the list. > So turned it into a UFS disk, mounted it and it worked perfectly. FYI there is a patch floating around that should fix that. I received it but was unable to test it as the 200Gb drive is out of my hands now :( I'm pretty sure the author is Tim J. Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> so if you get in contact with him he should be able to provide the diff (or if that times out I have a copy) > I was a little worried given the 1MB/s message but it transferred the file > from Sun server via ftp to my laptop Compaq N610c (usb2 but no firewire) > and had transfer rate hitting either wire maximum (100Mb/s full duplex) > or CPU limits (Sun server was busy). Wish my USB2.0 worked that well.. Firewire works very nicely on the ones I have though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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