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Firmware Question for SPARK ReadyNAS
I have a DUO and 2 NV+ units. I noticed that the DUO and one of the NV+ is running firmware 4.1.6 but the other NV+ is running 4.01c1-p1
I had the later NV+ do a "check for update" and it said I was uptodate. Why the descrepency in the firmware versions? I did download version 4.1.6 (RAIDiator-Sparc-4.1.16.zip) and tried to manually install it but after the upload/verification it said "invalid image". Incidentally, The two units running 4.1.6 show up in RAIDar but the other one running 4.01c1-p1 does not. Yet I am able to get to the FrontView interface for that unit despite not showing up in RAIDar.
What am I missing here?
Thanks and Happy New Year!!!
Rob
The current (and final) firmware for all the sparc NAS is 4.1.16. It was released in May 2017.
4.1.6 was released in 2009; 4.01c1-p1 was released in 2008. I'm not sure, but I think Netgear might have changed the update server names sometime after 4.01c1-p1 was released. If you aren't seeing 4.1.16, then you should manually install it.
You do need to extract the binary from the zip file first - that might explain the invalid image error you got.
BTW, there were some changes to the on-disk formats made after the early days, in order to support 1.5 and 2 TB drives. You probably should do a factory reset on all three NAS after you get the current firmware installed in order to get those changes. I don't recall exactly when the changes were made, but they were certainly done after 4.01c1-p1. mdgm might recall when those changes were made.
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The current (and final) firmware for all the sparc NAS is 4.1.16. It was released in May 2017.
4.1.6 was released in 2009; 4.01c1-p1 was released in 2008. I'm not sure, but I think Netgear might have changed the update server names sometime after 4.01c1-p1 was released. If you aren't seeing 4.1.16, then you should manually install it.
You do need to extract the binary from the zip file first - that might explain the invalid image error you got.
BTW, there were some changes to the on-disk formats made after the early days, in order to support 1.5 and 2 TB drives. You probably should do a factory reset on all three NAS after you get the current firmware installed in order to get those changes. I don't recall exactly when the changes were made, but they were certainly done after 4.01c1-p1. mdgm might recall when those changes were made.
I'm so used to deploying packages as a zip file I never thought about actually extracting the file. That did the trick! Thanks!
RAIDiator 4.1.7 added 4K sector support.
So if you last factory reset on older firmware than that it is advisable to backup your data, update to 4.1.7 (or later e.g. 4.1.16) if have not already and then do a factory reset and restore data from backup. A factory reset (on 4.1.7 or later) is needed to get 4K sector support.
If you use a 4K sector disk without the partitions being properly aligned performance will be terrible.
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