From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 10:30:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BDD23F9 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alogis.com (firewall.solit-ag.de [212.184.102.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A66143CD for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from msx3.exchange.alogis.com (msxcn2.exchange.alogis.com [10.1.1.22]) by alogis.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s9BAQMCb064679; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:26:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Holger.Kipp@alogis.com) Received: from MSX3.exchange.alogis.com ([fe80::1d83:c3db:ce3c:c06c]) by msxcn2.exchange.alogis.com ([::1]) with mapi id 14.03.0181.006; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:26:22 +0200 From: Holger Kipp To: Thomas Krause Subject: Re: 3 TB USB disk Thread-Topic: 3 TB USB disk Thread-Index: AQHP5ThEcRyAIrYnzkSMENEOTSYm25wqsSnT Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:26:21 +0000 Message-ID: References: <5438FAC6.3000807@chef-ingenieur.de> In-Reply-To: <5438FAC6.3000807@chef-ingenieur.de> Accept-Language: de-DE, en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:30:53 -0000 Hi Thomas, > On 11.10.2014, at 11:46, "Thomas Krause" wrote: >=20 > Hi, > I connected a 3TB USB disk to a FreeBSD 9.3 server. The drive is > recognized as 2 disks (da0: 2 TB and da1: 1TB). What is > wrong here? You might need to convert the disk to GPT. It might also be the case that t= he USB disk enclosure itself does not support larger disks. Best regards, Holger Further reading: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D2168222 http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/1392024-help-3tb-dr= ives-shows-up-2048gb-second-drive.html#/forumsite/3207/topics/1392024 http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.de/2011/04/windows-7-3tb-hard-drives-and= -larger.html?m=3D1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table=