On 14 Feb 2013, at 17:01, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> The confusing thing is that the kernel says it's a 3 TB device, >> but the utility programs say otherwise. > > There are more than a few SATA to USB adapters that are not capable of > dealing with larger devices. I've seen at least one that could not handle a > 1T drive. Now that larger drives are becoming more common, the limits are > often shown on the device box or description. > > The kernel may still identify the device correctly, possibly with different > capacity detection. > > As mentioned, ESATA or just bypassing the SATA/USB/Firewire adapter and > connecting directly to the drive should give the full capacity. >
I might be completely off here but, what about trying it over FireWire on a x64 box, as opposed to his 32bit 8.2 ? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
