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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:26:21 +0000
From:      Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
To:        Thomas Krause <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 3 TB USB disk
Message-ID:  <AB8E912C-F804-47EC-9EB0-187909180487@alogis.com>
In-Reply-To: <5438FAC6.3000807@chef-ingenieur.de>
References:  <5438FAC6.3000807@chef-ingenieur.de>

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Hi Thomas,

> On 11.10.2014, at 11:46, "Thomas Krause" <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.d=
e> 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=



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