Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, did you reformat the drive after u took it out of the drobo? Leo Wesson www.leowesson.com > On Dec 18, 2013, at 15:48, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > Hi, Geoff - > > I still have the Drobo. I just replaced one of its 3TB drives with a 4TB > one and am switching the 3TB to my JBOD enclosure. It is just an enclosure > with no software. The drives slide in and out. Right now I have the Drobo > with 4 4TB installed. Two JBOD enclosures - they each have 1 3TB and 3 2TB > drives. I'm replacing one of the 2TB drives in the enclosure with the 3TB > drive that came out of the Drobo. I had counted on having all of the 3TB > to back-up my scans. I didn't have this problem when I installed the other > two 3TB drives in the enclosures. Everything is exactly the same so I > can't figure out why it's refusing to let me allocate half a terabyte of > space! > I do wish somebody could come and sit at my computer to figure it out. > > Thanks, > > Tina > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yep, I was trying to provide some sort of practical response based on what >> was in Tina's query. Many users don't want to have to deal with partitions >> and drivers and the like. Living with the 2TB limit might be the simplest >> and no risk outcome. Sitting at the machine with Tina would be the ideal >> assistance plan of course. >> Tina is talking about a non-bootable disk I think. I assume in an external >> enclosure. At one point Tina had a Drobo unit ( which can deal with the >> bigger disks of course) but maybe no longer? >> >> I've never used any HDD's larger than 2TB as yet so I'll bow out. >> >> >> >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >>> On 19 December 2013 06:20, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 12/18/13, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I assume that you have Windows 7 (or Vista)? This can't be >>>> done with earlier windows than that. >>>> For whatever its worth, my understanding is that 2 TB is a >>>> limit due to the way windows deals with partitions. >>> >>> It's a limit for some partition types, but not a limit on physical drive >>> size. The worst case is that you may have to use multiple partitions on >>> the same physical unit.... As I understand it, most 7 boxes can handle >>> physical drives up to something outrageous like 256 TB. >>> >>> I sub-partition drives routinely as it makes it somewhat easier for me to >>> organize the system. I've never had any kind of issue with this at all. >>> >>> The partition reservation thing may be a limit in the JBOD box firmware >> or >>> the indexing routines, neither of which I have any experience with. >>> >>> >>> R. Clayton McKee >>> PhotoJournalist >>> from somewhere just south of somewhere else... >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information