Finder will not search certain hard disks

Hi Folks,
I have two Drobo storage devices connected to my My MacPro. Both are running with the same formatting "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I can search one of these disks but not the other. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Charles

ChuckSpade wrote:
this prescription does not work
Too bad, but there are other methods of rebuilding the index. See
<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html>

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