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 Posted: Sat Feb 2nd, 2013 11:10
Constable



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Something happened to me today that has had me tearing my hair out - probably because I did not do the correct diagnostics first.

My Drobo went down in the sense that the connection to the Mac could not be made. The Drobo is connected directly to the Mac Pro by ethernet. i spent a happy couple of hours playing with the software end, my firewall settings, setting up the Drobo on another computer ... it worked with a firewire connection but not ethernet.

So I then did what I should have done previously and checked the ethernet cable. I have never had an ethernet cable go bad on me before (connecters yes, but they were OK). But on this occasion that was the problem.

i probably learnt something, but I don't know what.

Anyway, the moral is always check your cables if the obvious things fail.

Ed