Hi all,Does anyone know what FSB speeds the ReadyNAS Pro motherboard supports.I have three "servers" that I'm trying to consolidate. I figured that the file server (which is actually the slowest machine) would be replaced by the NAS but I'm actually trying to merge some other services onto the box which much luck so far..One feature I'm working on porting is my Tivo transcoder. Essentially I have a small system that pulls programs off my Tivo, transcodes them and uploads (via WiFi/ethernet) to my portable media player. It means when I get home my media player syncs with my now-playing list so I can watch TV on the train too and from work. Since I work miles and miles away, I don't have time to watch TV at home so it's the only way I can watch TV..I have the package working on the NAS, and I'm working on the integration with the front end (like managing black-lists and so on). I'd like to bump the speed of the processor but obivously the newer energy efficient <65W intel chips all seem to be 1333MHz FSB. Is this supported on this NAS? I know the warranty is void with this type of fiddling, but that is a risk I'm happy to take.. I also understand you wouldn't recommend an upgrade like this, but I would really like to know if it were possible..I'll make all the code (mplayer is the driver behind the transcoding) available to anyone if interested.. but it is important to realise this is a Series 1 Tivo and an Archos 705/605 media player, not a common combination..

flip68 - I happened to find this link the other day and had it bookmarked... https://community.netgear.com/t5/Community-Add-ons/How-to-update-BIOS-w-OS6-x-installed/m-p/960570#U960570 I haven't tried this personally - as with all things of the internet - proceed with caution.

It may work. We are not going to endorse any CPU mods, and of course, your warranty is at risk by doing that modification.I am the one running an E6300 in my personal system at home. It has worked for me, but as always, YMMV (your mileage may vary). Don't need a kernel re-compile. I have VirtualBox running on mine.

Ok. I happened to mention the upgrade to someone who was also after an upgrade.. Long and short, I ended up with an E6700 cpu. I've run the same hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c tests and there's a marginal improvement.. Stock Pro with E2160 (1.8GHz) and 1GB of 667MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 1890 MB in 2.00 seconds = 945.13 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 510 MB in 3.00 seconds = 170.11 MB/secPro with E6600 (2.4GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 9052 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4533.83 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 628 MB in 3.00 seconds = 208.99 MB/secPro with E6700 (2.66GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 10132 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5075.66 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 622 MB in 3.00 seconds = 207.27 MB/secLooks like IO is more of a problem and getting anything more than about 208MB/s out of the RAID6 array is going to be hard.. Transcoding is noticably faster though.. not that I have any real stats to go on yet.. Still, if I'm right and this is the fastest CPU you can put in a Pro, I am more than happy.. it is BLISTERINGLY fast! If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :)

cpitchford wrote:If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :) $20 :)

For my system:temp1=60temp2=36fan1=1548fan2=1776Under regular load, while using my VirtualBox VM.top - 13:15:00 up 22 days, 12:46, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.23, 0.18Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombieCpu(s): 1.7%us, 8.2%sy, 1.3%ni, 88.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%stMem: 2072432k total, 1986916k used, 85516k free, 14056k buffersSwap: 1048536k total, 104k used, 1048432k free, 683368k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3037 root 20 0 1109m 1.1g 30m S 34 53.6 11415:10 VBoxHeadless 2403 root 20 0 48992 11m 1720 S 4 0.6 673:17.98 motion 2345 root 20 0 10132 8696 1016 S 0 0.4 26:14.54 wastesrv 2366 store 21 1 73028 30m 5312 S 0 1.5 213:19.99 bt

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renedis
Aspirant
Jun 07, 2013
Q6600 SLACR works on my board but with the errors.

07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 bios
FLAME6 V1.1 board
(Yellow) Sticker near processor: FA5

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Jun 16, 2013

ddoming73 wrote:
Hi everybody,

I couldn't resist and went and bought the Q6700 for my readynas Pro Pioneer. However, installing it wasn't as straightforward as I thought. Once installed, the system started sending out scary alarms like:

DDB18 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.80 current: -0.00].
AVCC power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00].
VCC3 power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00].
VCC1_25 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.25 current: -0.00].
VCC1_5 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.50 current: -0.00].
VCC1_05 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.04 current: -0.00].
3VDUAL power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00].
VBAT power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00].

However, the CPU seemed to be running fine. After some research I traced the cause to the /frontview/conf/enclosure.db file. Fortunately this file is a sqlite DB, which I could modify. To make a long story short, you have to change the paths where the system looks for voltage and temp data from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2 (which assumes a dual core CPU) to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4 (which assumes a quad core CPU).

I wonder if the people that tried quad core CPUs before ran into this too? Maybe this format was introduced recently? I'm running Radiator 4.2.21

I know it's too much to ask but maybe netgear can make this conf more CPU independent in later releases?

ddoming73 wrote:
Hi everybody, I couldn't resist and went and bought the Q6700 for my readynas Pro Pioneer. However, installing it wasn't as straightforward as I thought. Once installed, the system started sending out scary alarms like: DDB18 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.80 current: -0.00]. AVCC power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00]. VCC3 power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00]. VCC1_25 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.25 current: -0.00]. VCC1_5 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.50 current: -0.00]. VCC1_05 power is out of normal range [expected: 1.04 current: -0.00]. 3VDUAL power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00]. VBAT power is out of normal range [expected: 3.30 current: -0.00]. However, the CPU seemed to be running fine. After some research I traced the cause to the /frontview/conf/enclosure.db file. Fortunately this file is a sqlite DB, which I could modify. To make a long story short, you have to change the paths where the system looks for voltage and temp data from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2 (which assumes a dual core CPU) to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon4 (which assumes a quad core CPU). I wonder if the people that tried quad core CPUs before ran into this too? Maybe this format was introduced recently? I'm running Radiator 4.2.21 I know it's too much to ask but maybe netgear can make this conf more CPU independent in later releases?

can we make the short story a bit longer? :D Does that mean replace all instances of hwmon2 with hwmon4 - or only specific instances?

I just put in my quad and am getting those errors... also getting a fan failure error

Fan 1 has failed ( -22 rpm).

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Jun 16, 2013
Hmm, ok well i answered my own question by checking the paths of ever hwmon2 and finding out they are file not found. Whereas all of the hwmon4 paths existed. So the answer is, swap out all hwmon2 for hwmon4. However, you can't just nano or vi the enclosure.db file. Doing so is what caused my odd fan 1 has failed message. I used an sqlite editor, scp'd the enclosure.db file down local, upon viewing the data, I found that its structure had a main list containing all the readynas models. I clicked my readynas model, edited the column "paths", replaced all hwmon2 with hwmon4, saved, and uploaded back to my nas, overwriting the old file (i of course made a backup first).

Once done, the readynas seems to be fully and properly functional now. No more errors and the "health" view properly displays everything.

If anyone gets stuck on this part, let me know, I'll up screenshots and more details.
Xaver
Tutor
Jul 06, 2013
Hi,

finally I have also upgradet the CPU of my Pro 6 from E2160 to E7600 (Board FLAME6 v1.1.)

first try won't work but after upgrading the BIOS from something/2008 to this 07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0
(http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin from here viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29284&start=135#p387035)
it worked :)

my idle temp is 3C° more, about 56C° which is fine for me (Room temperature is 28C°, no air-con in the office :( )
I have 4GB (4-5-5-18 DDR2) Memory, maybe I will upgrade this at well to 8GB :)

so now VirtualBox should be fine for running win8

ATCIS

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Jul 08, 2013

chirpa wrote:
There may be even newer BIOS now, but I don't work there anymore to know that.

You can try running this add-on (install in FrontView, don't need USB boot anymore), which will update to the latest I had at the time: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin

That v0.5 add-on provides these BIOS versions:
Ultra2/ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 (1102/v1.8)

Ultra4/ReadyNAS-NVX-V2 (0823/v1.1)

Ultra6/FLAME6-2 (0610/v1.1)

Pro(6)/FLAME6-MB (0726/v2.0)

chirpa wrote:
There may be even newer BIOS now, but I don't work there anymore to know that. You can try running this add-on (install in FrontView, don't need USB boot anymore), which will update to the latest I had at the time: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin That v0.5 add-on provides these BIOS versions: Ultra2/ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 (1102/v1.8) Ultra4/ReadyNAS-NVX-V2 (0823/v1.1) Ultra6/FLAME6-2 (0610/v1.1) Pro(6)/FLAME6-MB (0726/v2.0)

Has anyone tried using this BIOS Update method on a Pro running OS6 v6.0.8. If so did you have any success?
EDIT/P.S.: I just tried this on an Ultra 4 running OS6 v6.0.8. I got an error that said "Error: Only Debian package is allowed". So I'm guessing that this will not work on the Pro either. . .
If not, is there an alternative method for performing the BIOS update without having to go back to Frontview v4.2.23?
Additionally, is this the latest and greatest BIOS revision that we currently know of?

Thanks in advance!

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 08, 2013
You have to install dmidecode and flashrom via apt-get. Then download the add-on onto the NAS and extract the contents of the add-on .bin manually, look at the contents of install.sh and run flashrom manually. Do make sure to check the current bios version and make sure to attempt to flash the correct BIOS.

I haven't tried this recently but it did work for me some months ago so I presume it would still work.
bishoptf
Aspirant
Jul 16, 2013
Looking at upgrading my ultra 2 and getting a pro 6 from the bay to upgrade, is there a certain model, I know pro 6 but of the pro 6 models is there better ones to try to go after (or avoid). Is there a way to tell with the pictures if a version is a newer vs older version like the location of the display etc....

Thanks in advance :)
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 16, 2013
The ReadyNAS Pro 6 is the RNDP6000-200. It has "ReadyNAS" written at the bottom right on the front of the unit.
bishoptf
Aspirant
Jul 16, 2013
mdgm wrote:
The ReadyNAS Pro 6 is the RNDP6000-200. It has "ReadyNAS" written at the bottom right on the front of the unit.

Thanks for the usual quick reply, just reading through the threads it appears there are dofferent versions and I wasn't sure if the later ones were better then the older ones, so I thought I would ask. For example I see some with an LCD and some without, does it matter when wanting one to upgrade the CPU etc.
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 16, 2013
All 6-bay units have a display on the front.

If you want to upgrade the CPU in a system running 4.2.x the best unit to get is a Pro 6. But you replace the CPU at your own risk.

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