misc/95738: Support of big msdos disks

[Peter Jaeckel]

>Number:         95738
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Support of big msdos disks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 14 10:30:21 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Jaeckel
>Release:        6.1
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
FreeBSD lerche 6.1-BETA4 FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 #0: Tue Mar 14 13:59:38 UTC 2006     root at wv1u.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
When mounting a usb drive with 250GB of available disk space mount_msdosfs logs a "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry" to the syslog.
So this disk is unusable with the FAT file system. Other operating systems have no problem in handling this disk.
>How-To-Repeat:
Use 250GB of FAT formatted disk drive and mount it.
>Fix:

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