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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