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To get to the meat of the matter, I downloaded the firmware for the Drobo Pro FS and tried loading it into the Drobo Pro, which of course it rejected as I was expecting. \u00c2\u00a0I then had a look at the firmware files and saw they both had a very similar header. \u00c2\u00a0After patching the firmware file with the correct header values (an exercise for the reader to find the correct 12 bytes to alter) I was able to load the Drobo Pro FS firmware successfully into my Drobo Pro.<\/p>\n
At first it didn’t seem to boot, but after putting some fresh disks in and rebooting the unit, up it came. \ud83d\ude42 \u00c2\u00a0At the moment the device doesn’t show up in the Drobo Dashboard, but it does present a public share, so it’s not a complete loss. \u00c2\u00a0I also took the opportunity while I had a serial cable plugged into the board to enable the telnet and ssh servers to allow me to poke around some more.<\/p>\n
It looks like the control software on the unit is expecting there to be two ethernet ports while the physical hardware only has 1. \u00c2\u00a0I may need to patch the binary…<\/p>\n
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I recently saw a post somewhere that showed the internals of one of the newer high end Drobo machines. \u00c2\u00a0It 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. \u00c2\u00a0I … <\/p>\n
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