elete discovery

[CarlFK]

I am having trouble getting my linux box to see my drobo elete b800i.

2 days ago a friend brought his windows laptop over, installed whatever was on the drobo cd, used it to partition, format and write a file.  So the drobo seems to be functioning.   

We tried to get my linux box to mount it.  I don't have the exact messages now, but from memory:

using usb, plug in, lsusb showed "drobo elite..." syslog shows /dev/sdb - but then some sort of error about reading.   fdisk errorred.  

installed open-iscsi, unplugged usb, tried to connect, got messages, not sure what they meant, don't think I got a device node.

I will post exact messages, but now the linux box does not see the drobo at all.  

juser@trist:~$ watch -ds lsusb

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1bcf:0005 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I think the drobo IP is 169.254.1.0 or maybe .9.0?  nmap didn't find it, but maybe it isn't checking the right port? 

One thing that we noticed when the windows box was around - we needed to plug in the the usb cable to the windows box, wait a good 30 seconds or so for the drobo app to react, then unplug from win box and plug into linux.  Then linux sees a usb device.  Otherwise nothing, which is what I am seeing now.  I have tried power cycling the drobo, plugging it into a mac.. nothing.

How do I get some response from it?

[CarlFK]

OK,  mac with management app hooked drobo via usb.  mac see drobo.  unplug usb from mac, plug into linux box:

juser@trist:~$ uname -a
Linux trist 3.7.0-4-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 27 23:13:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

juser@trist:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 19b9:8d20 Data Robotics Drobo Elite

juser@trist:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdb: Invalid argument


git clone git://drobo-utils.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/drobo-utils/drobo-utils
...

juser@trist:~/drobo-utils$ sudo ./drobom status
/dev/sdb - PyCon AV 00% full - ([], 0)

juser@trist:~/drobo-utils$ sudo ./drobom -v 255 status
found  [['/dev/sdx', '/dev/sdy'], ['/dev/sdz']]
__init__
/dev/sdx:/dev/sdy /drmnt0:/drmnt2 TRUSTED DATA 81% full - ['No disks', 'Bad disk', 'Too many missing disks', 'No redundancy', 'Relay out in progress', 'Mismatched disks', 'New firmware installed']
__init__
__del__
/dev/sdz /drmnt0:/drmnt2 TRUSTED DATA 56% full - ['Red alert', 'Yellow alert', 'no space left', 'Relay out in progress']
__del__


dmesg:


[ 5281.452077] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 5281.584936] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=19b9, idProduct=8d20
[ 5281.584945] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5281.584952] usb 2-2: Product: DroboElite
[ 5281.584959] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Data Robotics Inc.
[ 5281.584965] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 0DB1130B0283
[ 5281.585901] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[ 5282.620402] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Drobo    Drobo            1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 5282.621789] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 5282.622203] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1 512-byte logical blocks: (512 B/512 B)
[ 5282.623725] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 5282.623735] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 5282.625712] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 5282.625723] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5282.629753] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 5282.629763] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5282.630244] Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 1
[ 5282.630276]  sdb: unable to read partition table
[ 5282.630282] sdb: partition table beyond EOD, enabling native capacity
[ 5282.633076] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 5282.633085] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5282.633636] Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 1
[ 5282.633664]  sdb: unable to read partition table
[ 5282.633670] sdb: partition table beyond EOD, truncated
[ 5282.636704] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 5282.636713] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5282.636721] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk


juser@trist:~/drobo-utils$ sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel gpt
Error: Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=34 length=-66)
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: No space left on device during write on /dev/sdb
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!


[ 7173.027299] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready
[ 7173.027305] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.027308] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 7173.027311] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.027313] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[ 7173.027320] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.027323] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable
[ 7173.027326] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
[ 7173.027328] Write(10): 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
[ 7173.027339] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[ 7173.027344] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[ 7173.027346] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb
[ 7173.033299] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready
[ 7173.033304] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.033306] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 7173.033308] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.033309] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[ 7173.033313] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 
[ 7173.033315] Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable
[ 7173.033318] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
[ 7173.033319] Write(10): 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
[ 7173.033327] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[ 7173.033331] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
[ 7173.033332] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb