Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] Computer Help
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:13:59 -0600
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Probably.  Maybe the drive thinks it is still in the raid.

Thanks!

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com




On Dec 18, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Yes, Windows does that as it initiates the drive, but it was a quick
> format.  Maybe I should do a thorough one?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Leowesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>> 
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>>> 
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> 
> 
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