Using the new 3tb Western Digital drives in a 2 gen drobo
I am confused as to whether I can use a WD 3tb drive in my drobo. MY setup is as follows: intel 27 inch imac running snow leopard, i tunes 10, 2nd gen drobo with the latest firmware installed. I have my itunes library on the drobo and I stream all of my music and movies to my apple tv attached to my hdtv, all of the computers in the house can access itunes using homesharing and everything works great.
I have 3 bays of the drobo filled with WD 2tb drives and would like to add a forth drive. Given my configuration can I safely add a 3tb drive to the empty bay. I know that OS X will recognize the 3tb drive but it work in the drobo and will the full 3tb capacity show up on the drobo. Drobo's website is not clear and it says that they are coming out with a firmware update in the future. Will this firmware update be needed for all computers using a drobo or just those that have operating systems that will not recognize drives larger that 2tb?
Running out of space and would like to get the largest drive I can.
Any advice would be welcome. Thanks.
Ok I just got a 3TB Drive from Fry's Electronics its the new seagate Go Flex. I took it out of its enclosure.. and put it inside the drobo.. Drobo Tells me Drive Failed. " only for the new 3tb drive." THAT ***!!!! I just paid $200 and it tells me drive failed... So i take it out and attach it to the original usb and it works fine direct to the computer.. My drobo is attached with firewire800 and 4 bays are with 1.5tb each. and the 5th one was going to be the new 3TB drive. HUmm.... Any ideas on how I can make this drive work with my drobo ??
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bpf1947 wrote:
I am now using 3 3 WD My Book Studio FireWire External Hard Drives on my older iMac. I am thinking of getting a new iMac and see that they do not have a firewire plug. Is there a way to use these drives with a new iMac?
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My bad?
You're original response was questions/post about an iMac. Now you've edited it to ask about a Mac Pro?
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Not too terribly easy to add/replace drives in an iMac.
If younhave questions about a Mac Pro, try posting in the Mac Pro forums.
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> I am trying to use the parallel port on a win xp machine to send data
> a@ up to a 3k rate. This is for the the purpose of driving a stepper
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in this way from 440 ms for 4000 read byte port accesses (100us ms per
access) to 20 ms for the same number of read accesses (5 us per access).
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I've never had trouble buying over a dozen from OWC, so it does seem odd.
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There are two other methods for accessing and managing Mac Pro RAID, ARD and CLI
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306231
Originally, only Apple drives were supported. My understanding was that this changed. But the only article I found in KB dates back to Aug '07:
Question: What drives does Apple support with the Mac Pro RAID Card and the Xserve RAID Card?
Answer: +Only Apple drives are supported with the Mac Pro RAID Card and the Xserve RAID Card.+
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Use the new aluminium keyboard on a PC with Windows XP
Hello all,
That post is describing the problems I have when using the new apple aluminium keyboard on a PC using the windows XP keyboard drivers found on the boot camp CD (1.4)
This is my first post here so please be kind with me
First, let me know in case there is a better section where I should post that post.
I know that what I will ask here may not be a supported scenario. I understand that. But anyway. Here it is.
I am using Windows XP on a PC not a mac computer.
I bought one of the new aluminium keyboards. I love it, it's excellent. I know that the box says it requires mac os X 10.4 and up... I understand al that.
Because it is an USB keyboard, I thought I like it, let's try it on a PC. It worked but the letters on the keyboard are not placed like those on a PC.
Then I tought, why not use the driver for that keyboard provided on the bootcamp CD. I bought the keyboard. I own all my licences, so why not?
First I had a lot of troubles extracting those drivers from the bootcamp CD. I use Transmac for that.
A long story short. It's working and I'm typing that post right now on my cool keyboard.
so why am I here? Because it's not working perfectly.
All the keys are working perfectly, only the companion softwares are not.
I'm unable to launch the bootcamp dashboard, I have the icon in my systray but when I try to open the dashboard I get:
Boot Camp
An error occurred while trying to access the startup disk settings.
You may not have privileges to change the startup disk. Make sure you have administrative privileges and try again.
OK
I understand that. I guess this is related to the boot camp dual boot feature.
I guess that if this was working I could access to the bootcamp option panel and eventually have the opportunity to get access to the keyboard options? maybe I'm guessing wrong.
So, what I'm asking here is for the apple developpers working on the windows drivers for the apple hardware.
Do you think that you could test your drivers on PCs ? I'm pretty sure you could sell some more keyboard to the PC peoples as your keyboards are trully excellent.
The 'problems' I have are the following:
- I cannot lock or unlock the fn key, what I would like to do is use the F7 to F12 keys by default and press the fn key if I ant to access to the scpecial features, like for sound and CD eject
- kbrd.exe does not always start automaticaly. And when I start it by hand my computer freezes for about ten seconds
- the keyboard layout should only be changed for the apple keyboard, not for all the keyboards connected to the PC. Because I have two keyboards attached to my computer, my previous pc keyboard and the new apple keyboard. The layout on the PC keyboard is now the same as for the apple keyboard. this is wrong as it renders my previous keyboard useless. why do I need another keyboard? because that other one is cable less, meaning I can use it to control my PC when I'm not in front of it. But now, with the apple keyboard drivers this is not longer possible
- an option to have to press fn+eject to eject the CD would be nice. this will avoid me pressing eject by accident when I try to press the back delete key
- also as the drivers exist, why not let people like me download them outside of bootcamp for the kind of scenario I'm describing here?
That would all be very nice.
If you need a tester for that scenario, count on me,
Thank you for your comprehension about me asking such a question
I love that keyboard and do not intend to stop using it,
John.Hello spidermains,
Happy to see that I have a friend in that adventure
Look I have a blog entry here:
http://www.happytocode.com/post/Can-I-use-the-new-Apple-USB-Aluminium-keyboard-o n-Windows.aspx
That post describes all the steps I followed to extract the drivers from the dual boot camp CD.
I'm using a PC, only a PC. I do not have any Apple computer (yet).
When I mention boot camp, I mean the boot camp CD on one side and the boot camp utilities on the other side. To be more specific the tool I'm talking about is the kbrmgr.exe
That tool sits in the systray and is handling the special keys of the keyboard.
If you have other questions... let me know,
John.
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