Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6


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.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH



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