Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

The author documents a hands-on effort to revive a Drobo 5D RAID array for macOS beyond Ventura, analyzing its firmware and Drobo Dashboard software to determine why they fail on newer macOS releases and on modern hardware. Using Claude-generated tools, they outline a five-phase plan—protecting data, validating and decoding the device protocol, creating a CLI utility, and ultimately rebuilding a driver that restores full array status reporting.