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Firmware Upgrade ReadyNAS NV - from 4.1.6 to latest 4.1.15
Hi - I'm currently running RAIDiator 4.1.6 with four 256GB drives. I'd like to upgrade to four 2TB drives and I understand I need to update my firmware to do so. Questions: 1) Is it OK to jump from...
Issues resolved by performing the following:
- followed the steps listed in the first reply.
- used a 500GB approved drive as a scratch disk and updated to latest 4.1.16 firmware
- per steps, installed the 4 2TB WD Caviar black drives with a factory install (successfully loaded 4.1.16 and showed correct updated storage amount).
- had to use Firefox browser on mac to get the proper feature display to update the Alert Message/Email info.
- manually loaded the latest Squeezebox/LMS version (v7.9.0) and copied data back to the drives.
You'll find the LMS installers (Logitech Media Server) for various platforms in http://downloads.slimdevices.com/Log...Server_v7.9.0/.
Question: Is it OK to use a WD 1.5TB WD1502FAEX Caviar Black as the single "scratch" disk you mention in your steps?
It's not on the approved list...but will it work for this purpose? It's the only other spare disk I have available.
Should I purchase another disk for this step?
Thanks
potrero wrote:
Question: Is it OK to use a WD 1.5TB WD1502FAEX Caviar Black as the single "scratch" disk you mention in your steps?
That should work.
The only caveat - some early firmware didn't support 1.5 TB drives, that was added somewhere only the way. Unfortunately Netgear has removed the old RAIDiator releases from the kb articles, so I can't see the release notes that far back.
So that might be an issue - but there's no harm in trying it. All you need is fresh install so you can try the firmware upgrade.
FWIW, one benefit of this approach is that the original disks are still intact, so you do have another fallback if something goes wrong.
I picked up a refurbed 500GB drive and used it as a scratch disk. That worked well and the Firmware update went smoothly.
Per your steps, I installed the 4 2TB drives and have the following issues:
1) After the factory install, the 4th disk had to resync. That took approx. 8 hours. That seems strange as there's no data on the system. Does this mean I have a faulty disk #4? I did a second Factory Default and encountered the same issue. The system is displaying "4 disks, 5533 GB used". Is that correct for 4 2TB disks?
2) In the Alert settings, when I select the SMTP tab, it does not change the display so I'm not able to enter any data. All the other tabs work normally. Because of this, I'm not able to receive email alerts as I had previously setup in 4.1.6. Is this a software bug? or is it related to my resyncing drive issue? Is there other methods to make this work?
3) In Streaming Services, it does not allow me to activate Logitech Squeezebox. When I click the check box and hit apply, it thinks then unchecks the box. If I click on the "Setup" button it opens up a blank page. Squeezebox is the reason I use this NAS, so I'm hoping that it can still work with this firmware and disk configuration!
Thanks again for any additional info and steps!!
potrero wrote:
1) After the factory install, the 4th disk had to resync. That took approx. 8 hours. That seems strange as there's no data on the system. Does this mean I have a faulty disk #4? I did a second Factory Default and encountered the same issue. The system is displaying "4 disks, 5533 GB used". Is that correct for 4 2TB disks?
On your NAS disk 4 holds the RAID parity blocks. The sync happens at the block level, so it doesn't matter if the volume is empty or full. Your volume size is correct. It's 6 TB (using 1000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 TB). But the NAS displays GiB (as does windows). 6 TB = ~5588 GiB. There is some RAID overhead on top of that.
potrero wrote:
2) In the Alert settings, when I select the SMTP tab, it does not change the display so I'm not able to enter any data. All the other tabs work normally. Because of this, I'm not able to receive email alerts as I had previously setup in 4.1.6. Is this a software bug? or is it related to my resyncing drive issue? Is there other methods to make this work?
3) In Streaming Services, it does not allow me to activate Logitech Squeezebox. When I click the check box and hit apply, it thinks then unchecks the box. If I click on the "Setup" button it opens up a blank page. Squeezebox is the reason I use this NAS, so I'm hoping that it can still work with this firmware and disk configuration!
This sounds wrong. I don't use Squeezebox, but SMTP certainly should be working. What browser are you using?OK great. Resync has finished and status looks good. I was using IE on a PC, then I opened FrontView on a Mac in Firefox and was able to get to SMTP settings and am now receiving email alerts.
SqueezeCenter is still not loading, so I'm reading up on manually reinstalling the latest Logitech Media Server software to see if I can get that going.
Happy to have gotten this far. Appreciate your assistance!
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