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Re: [SLE] 128 GB limit with USB / Firewire external HDD
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:21:35 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511021952590.10038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 13:01 -0000, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> Sorry about the last one, things falling on keyboard ... several people were
> kind enough to reply to my original query (below), to say they'd had no
> problems with external usb disks > 128GB. I continued to meet this limitation
> if I allowed the automounting facility to handle the usb disk and to give it
> a name under /media. Other oddities included df describing the disk has
> having 0 bytes of 0 total free.
>
> The disk would declare itself as /dev/sda1, and by setting a conventional
> mountpoint in /etc/fstab I am now able manually to mount and umount the disk,
> with the result that it displays its real size, accurate df readings and so
> on. So a partial solution only - perhaps the oddities are due to something
> about the usb disk enclosure hardware or firmware.
Try the command 'lshal', and see wht it reports about that drive and disk.
There could be two "udi" entries, one for the drive, another for the media
- - I'm unsure, I don't have a usb disk to try that out. The one for the
media should show the size, perhaps it gets the info wrong.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 13:01 -0000, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> Sorry about the last one, things falling on keyboard ... several people were
> kind enough to reply to my original query (below), to say they'd had no
> problems with external usb disks > 128GB. I continued to meet this limitation
> if I allowed the automounting facility to handle the usb disk and to give it
> a name under /media. Other oddities included df describing the disk has
> having 0 bytes of 0 total free.
>
> The disk would declare itself as /dev/sda1, and by setting a conventional
> mountpoint in /etc/fstab I am now able manually to mount and umount the disk,
> with the result that it displays its real size, accurate df readings and so
> on. So a partial solution only - perhaps the oddities are due to something
> about the usb disk enclosure hardware or firmware.
Try the command 'lshal', and see wht it reports about that drive and disk.
There could be two "udi" entries, one for the drive, another for the media
- - I'm unsure, I don't have a usb disk to try that out. The one for the
media should show the size, perhaps it gets the info wrong.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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