Mac disk Uility repair disk, never ending

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i have a second gen drobo, connected by Firewire 800 to a 2010 MacBook Pro 13" running 10.6.3

i ran disk utility repair disk because the drive wasn’t showing in finder.

disk utility reported that there was a incorrect number of extended attributes and access control lists … i have no idea what they were, but disk utility said to run reapir disk, so i did, that was nearly 5 hours ago and it is still going.

it seems to be stuck on “updating support partitions for the volume as required”

the blue bar says less than a minute, but that has been there for about 2 hours …

any ideas what causing it, or do i just leave it be for a while and just let it run

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How much storage is on your Drobo? Personally I’d let it run.

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Yes, do let it try to run and complete. Have you contacted Apple to see what they suggest for how long you should let disk repair run?

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it finally finished after 12 hours … really silly, 3.6TB (drobo formatted 2 x 2tb and 2 x 1tb), 2.7TB used

i then ran diskwarrior and it showed a few malfunction errors, so now i am currently copying off and re-formatting

all down to the drobo not showing in finder

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How often do you run disk repair or Disk warrior? Should be done at least once a month as regular maintenance to ensure the integrity of your data.

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i hadn’t run it this month, was on my list of things to do now that i was on summer break