Drobo seen in dom0 but not appvms? (block dev is attached)

[Stumpy]

Hi, I have an old (2nd gen) drobo and was able to connect to it using
nautilus on my debian appvms, I would attach the drobo/block dev via the
qbes vm manager (am still on 3.2) and then it would show up under other
locations. Well my DebVM is not behaving for some reason, audio not
working AND nautilus is giving me errors when I try to start it. I
haven't though much about it as I plan to redo everything once 4.0 goes
stable. The caveat is that I can't seem to access my Drobo via fedora
(nautilus/thunar) or via debian (thunar as nautilus doesn't work).
I can access it just fine via thunar on dom0 but I don't want to start
messing with those files on dom0 (Im assuming that would be bad opsec),
and anyway all my apps for using those files are in my appvms.
I tried looking up on the net how to manually mount drobo but I can't
figure out with dev drobo is, though I tried mounting a few that I
wasn't sure about to no avail.
help! (please)