I got an email from a Drobo tech yesterday afternoon telling me to install the 1.3.1 release of the Drobo firmware. I told him I’d already figured that out but that I couldn’t do it until the Drobo console recognized Drobo1. He called and said to try power cycling it without the USB cable attached,… [Read More]
The Drobo plot thickens
I poked around on the Drobo support site until I found a firmware update that’s supposed to fix the Error 51 problems. Unfortunately, the instructions only apply to updating a Drobo that the Drobo management software recognizes. I hadn’t heard from Drobo support this morning so I decided to try some things myself. I shut… [Read More]
More Drobo troubles
I went to check on the server backups today and noticed that they had been failing for the last two days. Vice-Versa reported “target folder not found”. It only seemed to affect one of the Drobos, Drobo1; unfortunately, that was the one with the most-rapidly-changing data. The Drobo management software reported that all was well…. [Read More]
Using only what you need
When I get a new computer I usually reinstall just about all the aps that were on the old one. This time, perhaps because it was an out-of-schedule upgrade that I resented having to do, I just installed the ones that I knew I needed. Over a couple of weeks, I added a few more,… [Read More]
The new compute: after the transition
Now that it’s set up, I am happy with the new computer; and I’m even starting to believe it was worth all the trouble. Although air-cooled, it’s as quiet as any water-cooled machine I’ve owned. I’ve thrown a lot of photographic processing at it, and I’ve never seen memory usage above 60% (That’s still a… [Read More]