Windows 7 Latest RC, Drobo, Hell

[mriggy]

Hello,

I've recently bought a Drobo(NAS) and i'm trying to format it in Windows 7 guest that is on Ubuntu 9.04 Host. In formatting the drive if you do it on an xp machine you can only make partitions 2gigz if you do it on Vista or older the partitions can be larger. When I bring up the drobo program in Windows 7 is only gives me 2 gig partition sizes, why is that?

I tried using the same software on my sisters windows vista machine and the software allowed larger than 2 gig partitions.

Am I missing how Virtualbox handles kernels or is this a problem with the software/windows 7?

Thank you

[vbox4me2]

How did you connect the drive? a NAS typically has a webinterface for this.

[mriggy]

How did you connect the drive? a NAS typically has a webinterface for this.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I connect the drive through USB and I installed the software that came with the drobo on the guest OS. When I ran their software on Windows 7 guest to format the drive I only received the option of fat32 or ntfs(2gig max part.). It works perfectly fine on my sisters Windows Vista so I was thinking this might be a Virtualbox error somewhere.

[vbox4me2]

Look in the manual for the web user interface, a NAS suppose to be connected(and configured) to the LAN, no Guest software needed.

[mriggy]

Look in the manual for the web user interface, a NAS suppose to be connected(and configured) to the LAN, no Guest software needed.

Why does it matter whether I use a web interface or drobo software. Aren't they both supposed to do the same job?

[vbox4me2]

Ofcourse they should, but usb is known to be problematic with VBox, also the common NAS uses a partition format unknown to windows so formatting via usb won't get you full usage, for that you need the web interface.