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Subject: [Leica] Computer Help
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leowesson)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:55:28 -0600
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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...
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley
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Replies: Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Computer Help)
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