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Disaster Strikes! Advice requested!
I have an NV+ that has failed in a way that I have not seen. If I try to power it up, I see that the 2nd and 4th disk status LEDs are not lit. The power LED blinks a few times and then goes out, then ...
PapaBear wrote: If a disk fails completely, the led will be blank. I have had this on two different disks. Normally, a disk will give you some indication of degradation of the platter and you will get warnings. However, in the case of a complete mechanical failure or a failure in the on board electronics, it will just die on the spot. You will see a similar reaction if you have a functional healthy array and are increasing the size of disks. When you hot remove the first one, the light will go out and it will be reported as dead.
Thanks, this is useful to know. To your knowledge is is possible to generate a new array using the installed firmware? The info on recovery I can find is geared toward rewriting a firmware image to a corrupted flash drive. As far as I know my firmware image is ok, I just have no working raid disks.
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