usb2 and external hard disk

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 19 December 2003 20:43, Tony Maher wrote:
> Trying to mount it and got:
>
>   Dec 19 08:35:36 k9 kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry
>
> Someone else previously reported this on the list.
> So turned it into a UFS disk, mounted it and it worked perfectly.

FYI there is a patch floating around that should fix that. I received it but 
was unable to test it as the 200Gb drive is out of my hands now :(

I'm pretty sure the author is Tim J. Robbins <tjr at freebsd.org> so if you get 
in contact with him he should be able to provide the diff (or if that times 
out I have a copy)

> I was a little worried given the 1MB/s message but it transferred the file
> from Sun server via ftp to my laptop Compaq N610c (usb2 but no firewire)
> and had transfer rate hitting either wire maximum (100Mb/s full duplex)
> or CPU limits (Sun server was busy).

Wish my USB2.0 worked that well.. Firewire works very nicely on the ones I 
have though :)

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