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JaimeM

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« on: July 11, 2009, 09:44:58 pm »



Recently I added a fourth hardrive to my drobo, a window came up asking me to formatte the drive and said that only that drive would be formatted then asked me to type in a name, when I had completed the procedure I found to my horror that it appeard to have formatted the whole lot and wiped all of my files. But when I restarted my computer the orginal icon appeared on the desktop with files still intact much to my relief, and the new named icon was there as well so now I have two.

Now my Mac G5 seems to be freezing up alot more and the drobo dosen't always show on start up so I'm wondering if this empty icon is causing problems and how do I safely get rid of it?

Any feed back welcome.

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Jaime

Also one more thing if I go to dashboard and click rename it says I have two volumes, can anyone explain what this means?
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 01:03:42 am »

How big did you make your original DROBO partition, and did the recently added drive possibly take you over that limit?
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 01:36:45 am »

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How big did you make your original DROBO partition, and did the recently added drive possibly take you over that limit?

I didn't partition the drobo when I set it up originally.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2009, 08:04:41 am »

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I didn't partition the drobo when I set it up originally.

What Jack is asking is for how many gig did you "configure" the Drobo to begin with?  Mine is set up for the full max 16 TB (takes forever for windows to boot) but only has three drives totaling 2.5 TB, but I can plug and play up to 4 4TB drives (when they're available).  If, for example, you originally set it up for (I don't know what the minimum is) say, 2 TB and had 2 1 TB drives, then added a third, that might be an issue.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 07:44:20 pm »

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What Jack is asking is for how many gig did you "configure" the Drobo to begin with?  Mine is set up for the full max 16 TB (takes forever for windows to boot) but only has three drives totaling 2.5 TB, but I can plug and play up to 4 4TB drives (when they're available).  If, for example, you originally set it up for (I don't know what the minimum is) say, 2 TB and had 2 1 TB drives, then added a third, that might be an issue.

Exactly -- when you first set DROBO up, you have to set a configuration size for the OS to see, regardless of what you put in it.  I use 16G too, but if you used 2G for example, then every time you exceed a multiple of 2G in drive sizes it will automatically create a new partition for the next 2G chunk, and they'll all show on the desktop.   I suspect this is what you have done, and have two separate DROBO partitions,  but you can confirm by getting the stats on each partition from your OS...
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2009, 02:55:05 pm »

if you reconfigure the drobo now, with the 2 hard drives on the deskstop, is it going to format whatever is on the drives now?

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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2009, 03:56:03 pm »

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if you reconfigure the drobo now, with the 2 hard drives on the deskstop, is it going to format whatever is on the drives now?

Yes.
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2009, 06:04:25 pm »

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Yes.


hmm. no fun. what was the max amount of space you can put on a drobo to make it read as a single drive?
right now i have 3 500 gig drives in, and was going to put in 1 tb in the fouth slot, i have a feeling thats gonna give me the 2 drives on desktop deal, which im not really too keen on

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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2009, 07:40:04 pm »

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hmm. no fun. what was the max amount of space you can put on a drobo to make it read as a single drive?
right now i have 3 500 gig drives in, and was going to put in 1 tb in the fouth slot, i have a feeling thats gonna give me the 2 drives on desktop deal, which im not really too keen on

16TB is the current max, and what most of us have set ours to specifically to avoid the future reformatting issue as we swap in larger drives.  On the upside, if your DROBO is just back-up, it's not horrible to reformat it and reload it, especially considering you only are transferring what sounds like around 1 TB total data -- probably won't take more than a few hours to reload it all...  
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