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Turning on Your Drobo Device and Formatting the Drives

With Drobo Dashboard installed on your host computer and cables connected, you are

ready to turn on your Drobo device and format the drives.

1. With Drobo Dashboard open on your computer, press the power toggle button on the

back of your Drobo device once.

Note: The Drobo does not have a power toggle button. If you are using a Drobo and

you have connected the power cable, it will already be powered on.

Your Drobo device powers on, and a message appears, asking if you would like to

format your drives.

Notes:

- If you are using an eSATA cable with a Drobo S, be sure your host computer is

initially turned off for this step. (This is necessary because some eSATA cards do

not handle hot plugging of eSATA drives well.) With your computer off, press the

power toggle button on the back of your Drobo S once and wait until your Drobo S

has finished powering on (when the data bay indicator lights appear a solid green

for each drive in your Drobo device). After that, power on your host computer and

launch Drobo Dashboard. A message will then appear, asking if you would like to

format your drives.

- Some Windows operating systems and the Macintosh operating system will

also prompt you to format the drives. Click Cancel or Ignore, as appropriate, and

continue with formatting from Drobo Dashboard.

2. Click the Yes button.

The Format Type page appears. Depending on your operating system the window

displays with different options.