Re: USB hard disk

[tronss <tronss_(_at_)_ono_(_dot_)_com>]

Sebastiaan Indesteege wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:20:22PM +0200, tronss wrote:
>  
>
> > I have an SEAGATE ST3160021A hard disk (usb 2.0 disk).
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > sd0: 152627MB, 152627 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 312581808 sec 
> > total
> >
> > bash-2.05b# mount -tmsdos /dev/sd0i /mnt
> > mount_msdos: /dev/sd0i on /mnt: not an MSDOS filesystem
> >    
>
> And does this 160gb disk contain one big FAT32 filesystem? OpenBSD
> can't mount FAT32 filesystems larger than 128gb. I've had the same
> problem (it's in the archives somewhere), and splitting the large
> disk into two partitions worked fine for me.
>
> Also, I've had no problems with a single, large FFS filesystem. But
> if you need FAT32 for portability, the only thing you can do is
> keep your filesystems <128gb if you want to mount them on OpenBSD.
>
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>  

Thank you Sebastiaan :-)

it works with 2 partitions under OpenBSD... but in freebsd doesn't :-(  
: FreeBSD tells there is only one partition and doesn't let it to mount.

Do you know why?.

Thanks :-)