... snip snip
>>
>> We will read that recipe. Should anyone make additions to this thread
>> we
>> are all eyes_&_ears.
>>
>
> As was mentioned before, the limitationcomes from the defintion of the
> partition
> structures. Firstly the fdisk structure introduced with the IBM PC (I
> think)
I believe there are 2 limits you may be encountering. The disk is larger
than 2TiB and is low-level formatted with 4096 bytes sectors. The 2TiB
limit results from clculations with 32 bit integers and 512 byte sectors.
The large sector size is almost certainly the problem with "dd"...you
can rea
>
> I believe there are 2 limits you may be encountering. The disk is larger
> than 2TiB and is low-level formatted with 4096 bytes sectors. The 2TiB
> limit results from clculations with 32 bit integers and 512 byte sectors.
>
> The large sector size is almost certainly the problem with "dd"...y
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 01:21:11 -0500
em...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
> I really hope we aren't as ignorant as what these articles are making us
> appear to be ...
>
> We will try and not be long winded on this.
>
> OUR GOAL:
> To add a USB 3TB drive, with a UFS2 fs, to an already running x86 FreeBSD
> 7.
- Message from em...@guice.ath.cx -
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:39:08 -0500
From: em...@guice.ath.cx
Subject: Re: mount and umount large capacity external USB HDD (fstab)
To: duane.hes...@gmail.com
Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Lastly, we don't fully under
I really hope we aren't as ignorant as what these articles are making us
appear to be ...
We will try and not be long winded on this.
OUR GOAL:
To add a USB 3TB drive, with a UFS2 fs, to an already running x86 FreeBSD
7.3-p1 system.
PROBLEMS The following sections from the FBSD Handbook are er
This is a corrected version of my last post -- typo discovered --
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:24:42 -0500
> freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
>> Hope we are posting to the correct list ...
>> We__re using a laptop for our temp mail-server and would like to attach
a
>> two (2) or three (3) TB external
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:24:42 -0500
> freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
>> Hope we are posting to the correct list ...
>> We__re using a laptop for our temp mail-server and would like to attach
a
>> two (2) or three (3) TB external USB HDD for back-up purposes. Would
someone be kind enough to poin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:24:42 -0500
freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
> Hope we are posting to the correct list ...
>
> We__re using a laptop for our temp mail-server and would like to attach a
> two (2) or three (3) TB external USB HDD for back-up purposes. Would
> someone be kind enough to point
