Drobo: An interesting USB storage device

[Richard Sharpe]

Rod asked ...

>> Since I used to post on this list a long while ago now, I thought I
>> would let folks know about this device:
>>
>>    http://www.drobo.com
>>
>> A USB Storage device that will be available in Australia soon I am led
>> to believe.
>>
>> Accepts up to 4 SATA devices, currently presents as a 2TB LUN, and so
>> forth.
>
> Does it run Linux?  Is the firmware source code available?

No, it does not run Linux and neither is the firmware source available, 
but we have had lots of requests for Linux support so something is being 
done about that :-)

A patch should appear in 2.6.24 that enables more than 2TB over USB for 
example.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com