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While looking around the Drobo control panel for my B800i, I clicked on the little "X" in the Mount column by one of the volumes by accident.


I pulled this image off the Internet and it is not my setup.

Drobo thinks it isn't formatted (it actually has a lot of important data on it, but it's managed by Xen, and apparently Drobo doesn't know about that file system). Therefore, it asked me to create a file system and suggested NTFS. I hit Cancel in that dialog, since I didn't want to do that. Even so, after the dialog went away, the little X became a spinning icon. Nothing seemed to happen, so I closed the Drobo Dashboard application after a brief moment.

Later, I noticed some slowness while working with a Drobo volume from a Windows VM on the Xen server, but that might be normal/unrelated. Did I do something terrible to my Drobo volume? What does the spinning icon in the Mount column mean?

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  • Eww, Drobo. Which specific model, and do you have access to the underlying device/OS, without having to suffer the use of their control panel? – HopelessN00b Feb 21 '16 at 03:29
  • @HopelessN00b It's a [B800i](http://www.drobo.com/storage-products/b800i/), I think. I'm not sure what you mean by "underlying device" - I can connect with iSCSI. – Ben N Feb 21 '16 at 21:12
  • Not knowing if it was one of their model SAN, or some one of their Linux-based NASes, I was wondering if you had like a CLI interface or whatever else, or if you had to use the Drobo control panel. – HopelessN00b Feb 21 '16 at 22:06

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