Nas 3100 disconnectes after 10 mins

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Martcart78 wrote:
Thank you. How do I install os6 then please

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The process is destructive, so you will need to restore the files from a backup.

Basic instructions for the conversion are

1. BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP
2. Upload PREPR4TOR6_0.1-x86.bin as an add-on using the ReadyNAS web gui, but do not reboot afterwards (avoids the need to do manual factory resets)
3. Upload R4toR6_6.9.5.bin using the ReadyNAS web gui firmware update
4. After you upload the addon+firmware and reboot, it will update the firmware and start a factory default.
5. Go through the setup process on the converted NAS 
6. Update the NAS to the current OS 6 (check for updates will work).
7. Restore files from the backup.

Netgear won't provide paid support on a converted NAS, so that is one consideration.  There is a small risk that the process could fail, and if that were to happen it might not be possible to get the NAS running again.

Thanks , all working greart, just one last thing, is there a was to slow the fans down

Interestingly, /etc/frontview/sensors/RN3100.conf has no min speed settings for the fans where other similar ones (RN3200.conf and RN4200.conf, for example) do.  I have no idea if that's an oversight, unnecessary on that model, or an indication that fan control just won't work.  From you question, can I assume fan control did work in OS4.2.x, or did you not get that far with it to notice?

On my converted RN4200V2's, the OS6 fan speed control works just fine, but on my converted RD5200, it doesn't.  Yet, the motherboards are based on the same Supermicro board, I have re-wired the 5200's fans to be like the 4200, and am using a copy of the 4200 configuration file instead of the 5200 one Netgear created (which was for the orignal fan configuration with no control except for the CPU fan).  So, fan control seems to be a bit of hit or miss, depending on model, regardless.  I rely on the fan settings in the BIOS for the 5200, so maybe your 3100 has similar settings; but they aren't as good as the ones in OS6 (when those work).

In readynasd.log from the log .zip file of both the 4200 and 5200, I see a lot of these:

  Mar 29 21:23:29 RD5200A readynasd[6382]: failed setting new fan speed target: Permission denied

But, oddly, the new fan speed does get set on the 4200 but not the 5200.  I'm fairly certain those are related to the problem, and I have posted details about the various directories involved in a previous post, only to have minimal attention given by Netgear.  Check and see if you have similar entries.  Maybe, even though it's officially unsuported, we can get some attention from sombody who knows what is causing this.

My previous thread is here: RD5200-and-RN4200V2-fan-control-under-OS6