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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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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