3 TB USB disk

[Marc Santhoff]

On Sa, 2014-10-11 at 10:26 +0000, Holger Kipp wrote:
> 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.

It's most probably the controller chip in the enclosure that cannot
handle the size of the disk. Seen that myself once, the enclosure was
not specified for any disk size. After buying the same model but looking
for a specifiaction saying "up to 4 GB" anything worked nicely having
one disk wiht full capacity.

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>