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6.10.3 bricked two RN516 units
Recently, we upgraded the firmware on our thwo ReadyNAS 516s to 6.10.3. We used the automatic update (prompted on login), and updated from 6.10.2. The NAS rebooted and worked fine until a couple days...
FWIW, I think USB recovery is the right step here. The system can be fussy about what USB drives it will accept. Generally smaller/older ones work better.
Ideally, use a USB drive with an access LED so you will know if it's even being accessed.
While the legacy NAS are quite particular about the USB drive used, I've found the newer ones (and that includes my 516) to be less so, though a USB3 drive will typically give problems.
Exact same problem on a RN316.
USB recovery worked perfectly.
Thanks
Just make sure the OS6 image is in the x86 folder, took me a while to work out why it wouldn't work.
Michael
This exact same thing happened to my Readynas 516 that is used for business offsite backup files. I made a USB recovery drive and when I boot to it, the NAS is stalled at the Device Telnet / local IP address. Please help if there is ppssibly a way to backpedal and maybe downgrade to the previous firmware?? Thank you, Andy
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