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darrens
Oct 08, 2011Aspirant
Additions to FAQ
I recently had a nightmarish experience updating the hard disks in my ReadyNAS (partly described here http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=57565). A lot of the problems I had was finding...
StephenB
Oct 09, 2011Guru - Experienced User
I agree the FAQs could use some updating.
I've seen "corrupt boot partition" when inserting a used (but not erased) disk into the NAS. So that is another thing that could be added to that section - it is not necessarily memory.
Also, if you have add-ons, either you need to customize the config backup, or you need to re-install them before doing the config restore. If you do neither, you will need to go back to factory defaults (or mess with shell commands I guess) to put things right.
At least some of the material from sphardy's site would also be nice to have in the FAQs (with his permission of course).
I've seen "corrupt boot partition" when inserting a used (but not erased) disk into the NAS. So that is another thing that could be added to that section - it is not necessarily memory.
Also, if you have add-ons, either you need to customize the config backup, or you need to re-install them before doing the config restore. If you do neither, you will need to go back to factory defaults (or mess with shell commands I guess) to put things right.
At least some of the material from sphardy's site would also be nice to have in the FAQs (with his permission of course).
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