I have the the problem that there is no Droboshare in the finder visible and drobo does not mount.
Drobo is in Drobo Dashboard visible, 84% used space, 3x 1TB and one 500GB drive,
but the blue lights on drobo are all off!! (the four bay lights are green, btw.)
firmware versions:
Drobo Dashboard: 1.5.1
Drobo Firmware: 1.3.4
DroboShare Firmware: 1.1.2
running Mac OSX 10.5.8
So i shut down drobo and droboshare, and connected the Drobo directly to the Mac via USB.
Now 8 of the 10 blue lights are on, DroboDashboard shows drobo, but there wasn’t any volume available!!!
Then I discovered that OSX was running FSCK_HFS, and as i stopped this process the volume Drobo was available, again.
Going back to the Droboshare connection doesn’t help. Still no blue lights, no mounting of the drobo volume!
I can ping the Droboshare, but I dont get a ssh connection to dropbear! (connection refused)
Also DroboApps Admin doesn’t work.
Well, I’m sorry, can’t really help. But you may perform a “disk repair” (e.g. via diskutil or DiskWarrior). It least this would stop FSCK_HFS from running. (Well, diskutil failed for me regarding volume header…)
On the other hand I’ve a similar problem: I can mount Drobo via USB / FW. But via DroboShare it doesn’t work. I can ping DroboShare, but smb is inaccesable (connection refused), also dropbear (ssh) didn’t work anymore. I already perform a reset as described in the KB. Even Drobo Dashboard doesn’t find my DroboShare. (I’ve installed the latest firmware versions.)
droboshare does not react for the same reason (disk is corrupt)
I have solved this issue like this: connect via usb or firewire, let FSCK_HFS running -
for me this takes more than 12 hours - be patient!
(Or use another tool, where you can see the progress)
After this reconnect the drobo to the droboshare.
Now both devices work together, again!
Thanks, but I already did that. Still doesn’t work… very strange indeed.
And yes, I can attach Drobo via USB / FW without problems.
I think it’s time to open a support request… (but before this I will remove all disks and insert a “blank” hard drive… if this works I may need to reformat which wouldn’t be funny since filling already took me several days )
“The queen is not amused!”
– dietmars
UPDATE
My DroboShare lives again! What did I do?
Removed all hard discs from Drobo and inserted a fresh hard disc. This step may be useless but it’s what I did. (Of course after power down.)
Performed againhttp://support.datarobotics.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/84/related/1 ("How do I reset DroboShare back to default settings (to clear a static IP address, password, timestamp, or for any other reason)? ") Maybe I didn’t follow the steps on the first try correctly.
After power on DroboShare was accessable again.
Turned it off again, inserted all (real) discs again, power on: All data still there (of course).
Well, so I’m happy again. But have to appologize to the OP for hijacking his thread. And a big thank you to everyone who tried to help.
I had the exact same issue yesterday. Drobo seen when connected with firewire, but not seen through Droboshare. All 4 disk leds being green, but no blue led.
I ran Disk Utility (verify disk) several times, it did not help. During one of the droboshare+drobo boot attempts, it got even more scary: all 4 disks blinking red.
As a last attempt I changed the connection between drobo and droboshare to use the other USB port on Droboshare and it worked.
Today I reverted to the original USB port on Droboshare and it also works, hopefully it was only a temporary issue.
I use a Drobo 2nd gen (1.3.5), droboshare 1.1.2, dashboard 1.5.1 and MacOs 10.6
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