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Q: Moving Drobo to Airport Extreme No Files

I have a Drobo on my iMac formatted with HFS+. I got a new airport extreme and move the Drobo to that. The airport shares the drive, but none of my files or folders are shown. When I move my Drobo back to my iMac, everything is still there. Is this a permissions problem? Any idea?

 

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Posted on Sep 19, 2014 7:21 AM

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  • by Bob Timmons,

    Bob Timmons Bob Timmons Sep 19, 2014 2:05 PM in response to prioret
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    Sep 19, 2014 2:05 PM in response to prioret

    Please review this Apple support document linked below for a few hints on whether a RAID configuration might work.

     

    AirPort base stations: About USB disks

     

    In general, if the RAID device presents itself as one volume, it "may" be supported.....but in typical Apple vague language.....the user is asked to refer to the documentation that came with the device.....in this case, your Drobo, which will not likely tell you what you want to know.

     

    Your best bet is to wait for a user who has done this.....or found it not possible, as I have in the past a few years ago....to provide a more up to date answer. Another option would be to post on a Drobo support forum to ask about this.

     

    If the data on Drobo has been encrypted, there is almost zero chance that the AirPort Extreme would support this.

  • by prioret,

    prioret prioret Sep 20, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Bob Timmons
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    Sep 20, 2014 8:28 AM in response to Bob Timmons

    Its hardware raid and completely obfuscated from the airport. The Airport sees it as a single 16GB physical drive.  The airport shows an empty volume and it can be written too, which means its able to mount the device.  Its just that all the folders on the Drobo that show up in OSX do not show up via the airport. I changed my permissions to R/W everyone and still nothing is listed.