Re: Need to make a single 3TB partition

[andy]

Are you using something like this, which has a self-contained RAID

interface?

MobileSTOR MS2UT+ - 2 Bay eSATA/USB RAID/SAFE33/50 (Silver)

http://store.sansdigital-shop.com/moms4.html



On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:00:49 -0400, Yousuf Khan

wrote:



>Bought a dual-disk USB enclosure and a couple of 1.5TB drives to put

>into it. First of all, the enclosure has a built in concatenation

>feature. When using that, Windows and Linux both see it as an 800 GB

>drive, rather than a 3000 GB drive! So I put it back to regular mode,

>and we see two separate 1.5 TB drives again.

>

>Next I tried concatenating through Windows Disk Management. BTW, this is

>Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64. When I use the Spanned Volume wizard, it

>gives the error message, "Operation is not supported by object". I then

>tried converting each disk from MBR partitions to the new GPT

>partitions, it accepted that. I then retried the Spanned Volume wizard,

>and the same message appeared. Then I tried converting them to Dynamic

>disks, but it showed the "Operation is not supported by object" message

>again. I think whatever the problem is, it's from this stage where it

>tries to convert to dynamic disks. So why isn't it accepting the

>conversion to dynamic disks?

>

> Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

andy wrote:

> Are you using something like this, which has a self-contained RAID

> interface?

> MobileSTOR MS2UT+ - 2 Bay eSATA/USB RAID/SAFE33/50 (Silver)

> http://store.sansdigital-shop.com/moms4.html





No, this is what I have.



Tsunami - Tsunami eData II 3500 3.5″ JBOD Black - EDATAJBODBK

http://pricecanada.com/p.php/Tsunami-eData-II-3500-35-JBOD-Black-EDATAJBODBK-649067/



Yousuf Khan

 

[UI.Designer@home.org]

Yousuf -



When I went to the Tsunami web site to look up the details on this

drive enclosure, I found that there's an internal jumper for switching

between JBOD (2 separated disks) and BIG (one bunched disk). Have you

set that jumper properly?



- Paul



On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:56:18 -0400, Yousuf Khan

wrote:



>andy wrote:

>> Are you using something like this, which has a self-contained RAID

>> interface?

>> MobileSTOR MS2UT+ - 2 Bay eSATA/USB RAID/SAFE33/50 (Silver)

>> http://store.sansdigital-shop.com/moms4.html

>

>

>No, this is what I have.

>

>Tsunami - Tsunami eData II 3500 3.5? JBOD Black - EDATAJBODBK

>http://pricecanada.com/p.php/Tsunami-eData-II-3500-35-JBOD-Black-EDATAJBODBK-649067/

>

> Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

UI.Designer@home.org wrote:

> Yousuf -

>

> When I went to the Tsunami web site to look up the details on this

> drive enclosure, I found that there's an internal jumper for switching

> between JBOD (2 separated disks) and BIG (one bunched disk). Have you

> set that jumper properly?

>

> - Paul



Yes, and it's not an internal switch, it's quite visible on the outside.



Yousuf Khan