by rodgoslin » May 6th, '21, 02:54
The RAID system used by Drobo, is a Drobo product, and as such, it's extremely unlikely that any other systenm would accept disks which ran on it. I do have a solution for this part. I was fortunate enough to get a Drobo unit of the same type from ebay, and my disks should run ok on the replacement unit. It's the future, I was thinking of, since Drobo seems to be keen on closing itself down.
I doubt that it is a hardware failure. It could be but the evidence indicates otherwise. I have two other Drobo units, both of these re-booted after the firmware update, without problems. The unit which failed went through the update in exactly the same way. Only when the system requested a re-boot did the problem arise. The unit begins the boot sequence, in the normal way, but after a couple of seconds, the unit powers off. There's very little one can do with this, the machine is inoperable. I've powered it off, even to withdrawing the power. (The Drobo draws power (1.7Wats) even when powered off, I've unshipped all the disk drives. Nothing alters the failed boot sequence. Recouse to Drobo support has not worked, I submitted a ticket exhaustively explaining the problem, I recieved two replies, both suggesting things that I'd told them I had already done. Another asked for a video, without specifying what a video of. On the basis of wanting to see the light sequence, I sent them a short video. A week later, I was asked to send them a video of the light sequence, Nothing since.
As to the Linux system having no problem with connecting to a NAS system, Mageia, and Mandrake before that have ALWAYS had problems with connecting to a NAS, and still have, and as far as I can see, will always have problems. The Mageia Control Centre does not and cannot setup and mount Drobo units. the task has to be done manually, with fstab and hosts files edited, authorisation files added to /etc/samba, and a fixed IP address arranged for all NAS units. Even then, it has been only in the past copuple of years that I've found out how to setup the system to allow a user to write to the NAS. before that, only root could write, whilst the user could read. It was really other peoples experiences that I was after