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Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear

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How long should I wait?

I have a Drobo S that has 3 1Tb drives and 2 3Tb drives.  Logical 
capacity is 17.59 Tb, based on 5 4Tb drives, I guess.  The actual 
physical capacity of my setup is about 5.5Tb.  It is currently 
partitioned into 10 150Gb partitions for nightly backups and a remaining 
partition of about 4Tb for photos and music.  I originally used Disk 
Utility to set up these partitions.  While this is not supported by 
Drobo, it works and has worked fine for years.

 I am trying to split the last partition into 2 2Tb partitions using 
Disk Utility.  I first deleted everything on the final partition and 
then tried to create a 2 Tb partition.  This seemed to be working fine 
until the "Waiting for the disks to reappear" message appeared.  It now 
has been waiting for over 12 hours and it seems like something may be 
wrong, except I don't have any idea what that might be.

I am on a 2.3 GHz MacBook Pro with 8 Gb of RAM.  Although all the bays 
are green in the Drobo and four of the blue capacity lights are lit, 
Drobo Dashboard does not see the drive.  On the other hand, Disk Utility 
does seem to be working.  When I bring up the Force Quit panel it seems 
to be okay.  When I bring up Activity Monitor it shows the following:

551    Disk Utility  rbp   1.0   5  76.9 MB  Intel (64 bit) 90.4 MB  

The console log shows the following few entries for Disk Utility:

2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: 
2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: Beginning partition operations
2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: Verifying the disk
2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: Checking file system
2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-10-27 16:49:26 -0400: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-10-27 16:49:28 -0400: Checking catalog file.
2013-10-27 16:50:25 -0400: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-10-27 16:50:25 -0400: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-10-27 16:50:25 -0400: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-10-27 16:50:49 -0400: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-10-27 16:50:57 -0400: Checking volume information.
2013-10-27 16:50:57 -0400: The volume VA Pictures appears to be OK.
2013-10-27 16:50:59 -0400: Shrinking the disk
2013-10-27 16:50:59 -0400: Unmounting disk
2013-10-27 16:51:07 -0400: Finishing partition modifications
2013-10-27 17:12:49 -0400: Waiting for the disks to reappear

It appears to me everything is working normally but it is taking sooooo 
long!  Is that normal?

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Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2013-10-28 10:56 -0400
  Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-10-28 16:04 -0700
    Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2013-10-29 18:45 -0400
      Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-10-30 12:11 +1300
        Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2013-10-31 16:19 -0400
          Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-31 15:24 -0500
          Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-31 16:39 -0400
          Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-11-01 09:43 -0700
      Re: Disk Utility -- Waiting for the disks to reappear Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-10-29 18:33 -0700

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