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Multiple NAS drives in a non-RAID (JBOD) configuration?
I have a Netgear ReadyNAS214 (latest OS) which had a single drive as it was/is intended as a backup to machines on the network – "JBOD", no RAID required or wanted. When I introduced a second dri...
Did you try to do a factory default? That would be needed if you were still using XRAID. I thought based on your earlier post that you have already gone back to JBOD. FWIW, it wasn't needed to simply add a JBOD volume.
In an event, if that is what you are doing, then the NAS admin password has been reset to password. The NAS will by default use XRAID. So when you get past the wizard, you should
- switch to flexraid
- destroy the data volume
- create two jbod volumes, one for each disk
There is no need to wait for the XRAID volume to build/resync.
I've copied all the 100GB of data off the #1 drive and I'm following the Installation Guide (pp9-11) to reinitialise/reformat that drive. Except I can't get past the wizard's setup page wanting the admin password. I give it the new pswd, hit Enable Password Recovery/Reset Button and then Next/Next/Apply and it errors with Failed to set Admin Account Password and Failed to set Recovery method.
If I select IGNORE and Apply, it pops up the error box again. Can't ignore, can't satisfy the b@#$%^ wizard, can't proceed!!
What was once a useful single drive NAS is turning into an absolute nightmare.
Did you try to do a factory default? That would be needed if you were still using XRAID. I thought based on your earlier post that you have already gone back to JBOD. FWIW, it wasn't needed to simply add a JBOD volume.
In an event, if that is what you are doing, then the NAS admin password has been reset to password. The NAS will by default use XRAID. So when you get past the wizard, you should
- switch to flexraid
- destroy the data volume
- create two jbod volumes, one for each disk
There is no need to wait for the XRAID volume to build/resync.
No I had done the factory default after removing all the data. (The drive showed up as RAID 1 so I went that route.) Then after the factory default I had to pass via the wizard. Eventually I gave up on the wiz and was able to get the admin page to come up (with my pswd). Went and "de-X-ed" and accepted the flex warning, plugged in the #2 drive and eventually formatted it after realising I had to DESTROY it first. So now both have shares and I'm shifting the 100G of data back onto #1. Will get to check out #2 later.
If your old password still worked, it didn't do a factory reset, at least not with the main drive installed. But what you did need to do, unless you are confortable "under the hood" with SSH, is destroy the RAID volume and re-create the JBOD. Seems you eventually got there, though after some frustration.
BTW, how your simple 1-drive NAS got so complicated is that it's not quite so simple as you seem to have thought. You thought it was simple enough you didn't need to read the manual, which would have told you that XRAID is the default. The NAS is a dedicated Linux computer with lots of drive bays, not something simple like a USB drive chassis. Reading the instructions is highly recommended.
The former pswd didn't work (had to go and find the default one ...), and the IP had reverted to DHCP rather than the static I had assigned. It certainly did the factory reset/default.
I had read the manual, more than once, but it really didn't seem like it wanted to deal with JBOD x2. I certainly didn't see anywhere that said "for more than one JBOD you'll need to flip X-RAID and select flexRAID".
Also the flexRAID warning "only recommended for experienced users)" or similar - which I am certainly not (*) - is a bit intimidating to newbies. So the way forward was far from evident in the manual.
(*) This single-drive JBOD config was set up for me by someone else.
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