I’ve been playing around with my old DroboPro and in the process managed to frag the uBoot config rendering the unit basically useless as the vxWorks side didn’t boot the special disk applications required for correction function. Â Fortunately I have another Drobo, in this case a Drobo FS. Â I was able to disassemble that (I …
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Drobo Pro/FS
After working through it a bit more it appears that the problem is actually in the Drobo Dashboard. Â For some reason it is refusing to show the “Drobo ProFS”. Â I loaded up the 1.8.4 version of the Drobo Dashboard and it sees the unit just fine but doesn’t allow much to be configured. Â Maybe I …
Breathing new life into my Drobo Pro
I recently saw a post somewhere that showed the internals of one of the newer high end Drobo machines. Â It appeared to use the same motherboard as the Drobo Pro I have sitting here on my desk gathering dust so I decided to take another look at what I could do with the thing. Â I …
It is alive again
I got another email from the awesome tech support guys at Drobo this morning asking about my DroboPro. I told them it had died again and they offered to replace it rather cheaply, they also suggested that both batteries might need to be replaced rather than just the CR2032 coin cell. I removed the main …
Looks like it is dead again
I spoke too soon. I rebooted the box to get it to enable iSCSI to allow for a faster transfer and it hasn’t come back to life again 🙁 At least I managed to get the one thing I didn’t have a backup copy of off the unit, so I’m pretty much good to go …
My DroboPro just died :(
It is almost 4 years old, so it has served me reasonably well. I have backups of most of the data, but there may be some things I have lost. Ah well. I’ve been wanting to open the thing up and have a look inside for a while now. They are quite nicely built I …