FBSD 5.3-STABLE and 200GB USB2 drive

[nick holley]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:54:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:19:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That is my problem. I have updated my system to 5.3, and I tried to
> > > mount my USB2.0 drive (with 200GB), and the system can't mount it. I
> > > had heard that this FBSD version was able to mount this kind of
> > > drives, it is true? In that case, what I have to do?
> > >
> >
> > Can you be a little more specific? What errors (if any) do you
> > receive? Does the system detect the drive? etc.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> 
> mountmsdosfs(): disk too big (or something like this at this moment I
> dont remember)
> My systems detects the unit, in /dev/da0s1
> #: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /internet (/internet directory exists)

I'm want to say that your problem is exactly what it says. I think
that FreeBSD can only deal with a fat32 partition up to a certain size
(128GB?). You might also try splitting it into a couple of different
partitions or reformatting as UFS if you don't need windows
compatability.

Nick