Hi!
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > [...]
> > Well, the mentioned problems (running out of kernel memory
> > and NFS export difficulties) can occur with msdosfs file
> > systems of any size, including ones that are smaller than
> > 128 GB. It would be real
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> [...]
> Well, the mentioned problems (running out of kernel memory
> and NFS export difficulties) can occur with msdosfs file
> systems of any size, including ones that are smaller than
> 128 GB. It would be really annoying to not be able to
> mount a USB stick with a
James Wyatt wrote:
> James Wyatt wrote:
> > 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 ext2
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, James Wyatt wrote:
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 a
Richard Coleman wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > [...]
> > However, if the size of the file system exceeds 128 MB
That should be 128 GB, of course.
> [...]
> Because of the potential panics that were mention, I can understand a
> reluctance to change the default. But I suspect that (atte
Oliver Fromme wrote:
secmgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
secmgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
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 fi
Rink Springer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:34:09AM +0100, Rink Springer wrote:
Looking at /sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c seems to hint the existance
of options MSDOSFS_LARGE; this avoids the error message and will let you
mount the disk.
Oh, and before I forget: this option is defined i
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:09, Clayton Milos wrote:
>
> 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.
Th
Christian Brueffer wrote:
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Richard Coleman 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:
Nov 26
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:34:09AM +0100, Rink Springer wrote:
> Looking at /sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c seems to hint the existance
> of options MSDOSFS_LARGE; this avoids the error message and will let you
> mount the disk.
Oh, and before I forget: this option is defined in /sys/conf/NOTES a
On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:26 , Richard Coleman wrote:
As to using da0 rather than da0s1, that's how I've always seen to
mount a msdosfs partition (and it works for my 256M usb key drive).
Flash drives usually don't have partition tables. The WD drive does;
I checked it with fdisk before tryin
Hi Richard,
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Richard Coleman 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:
>
> Nov 26 22:03
Clayton Milos wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Richard Coleman"
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To:
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Subject: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6
I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g
Western Digital
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
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 19:23, Richard Coleman 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:
>
> Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: uma
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:23 AM
Subject: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6
I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g Western
Digital My Book). When I
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:
Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev
2.00/1.06, addr 2
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