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Factory Reset Not Working To Setup New Drive
My end goal is to get 2 Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EARS drives running in this ReadyNAS Pro 2 as separate independent volumes (JBOD). I've read on here that could be possible by first doing...
Success! I was able to extract the firmware, mount the flash memory, and overwrite the files to perform a manual firmware update. I made sure to check the md5sums of all the files before I rebooted to make sure everything was ok.
Extracting the firmware proved a little challenging, because it's all wrapped in a nondescript package. I found an article here which explained how to use binwalk to get the position of the files, and then using dd to extract a tarball using that position information. Since I don't have a linux box running right now and couldn't run binwalk on the NAS busybox, I just downloaded the 4.2.30 firmware version the author of the article used and copied the same dd command to extract the tarball for that specific firmware version.
Rebooting allowed RAIDar to detect the 4.2.30 firmware (it was never able to display 4.2.26 previously because of the file corruption), and the factory default with a single drive connected completed successfully for the first time ever. I was then able to access the Frontview web GUI and upgrade from there to the latest 4.2.31.
I was able to telnet in and discovered the firmware is 4.2.26 according to etc/os_version. I have tried to update the firmware to the latest 4.2.31 using the usbrecovery tool, but the unit never powers off after I try to boot with the USB attached holding the backup button. Tried a couple different USB flash drives too. Not sure what do from here.
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