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timhood's avatar
Jul 24, 2024
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How to get volume back to read-write mode

I have a ReadyNAS 428 with two RAID5 Flex-RAID volumes. One volume experienced a disk failure and the volume was changed to read-only. I replaced the disk, formatted it, added it to the volume, and w...
  • Sandshark's avatar
    Sandshark
    Jul 25, 2024

    I had that happen to me.  In my case, I knew it was because my EDA500 came unplugged during a write operation, and it was fixed.  But everything I tried to make it read/write would not "take" -- it went back to read-only.  It sounds like you already have a backup, which is good.  Just make sure it's up to date and destroy and re-create the volume.  I wouldn't trust the volume to not have a hidden remaining issue if you do anything else.  The NAS makes the volume read-only to keep you from doing something that may destroy it but give you a chance to back it up.  Take the hint.

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