3 TB USB disk

[Holger Kipp]

Hi Thomas,

> On 11.10.2014, at 11:46, "Thomas Krause" <freebsd-stable at chef-ingenieur.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I connected a 3TB USB disk to a FreeBSD 9.3 server. The drive is
> recognized as 2 disks (da0: 2 TB and da1: 1TB). What is
> wrong here?

You might need to convert the disk to GPT. It might also be the case that the USB disk enclosure itself does not support larger disks.

Best regards,
Holger

Further reading:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2168222
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/26-home-theater-computers/1392024-help-3tb-drives-shows-up-2048gb-second-drive.html#/forumsite/3207/topics/1392024
http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.de/2011/04/windows-7-3tb-hard-drives-and-larger.html?m=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table