Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You probably know this but the data on the disc needs transferring from any drive you wish to use in your Drobo before you fit it to the Drobo. Their software presumably interlaces things and as soon as a drive is plugged into it it starts using it in its own way, overwriting whatever is on it. Just in case you did not know! Frank On 2 Aug, 2009, at 04:09, Tina Manley wrote: > At 08:27 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: >> Ouch, it's so hard to read all this and be thousands of miles away >> unable to help. > > I wish you were here!! > >> If it is a SATA disk, and the enclosure is bad, you can take the >> disk out of the enclosure and put it into another SATA enclosure of >> similar vintage, and it will work with no risk to you. The reason >> the enclosures need to be of similar vintage is that older >> enclosures don't deal well with larger more modern disks. It's >> always OK to replace an older SATA enclosure with a newer one, but >> not vice versa. > > I think that's my problem with my old Venus cases. They are of > older vintage for sure. I'm hoping the Drobo might work with this > drive, in addition to the WD ones that I ordered for it. > >> It is not a good idea to take a disk that has been in an external >> USB or FireWire enclosure and mount it inside your computer. It can >> be done and it usually works, but it's kind of like the home birth >> of a baby: most of the time it works just fine, but every now and >> then you really want to have a surgeon nearby. > > I had my babies at home ;-) but I won't try to put the disk inside > my computer. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information