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NAS RN202 will not boot up.
Hi I have a RN202 with 2 x 3Tb WD drives. I use a MacBook Pro I received various messages from the NAS as follows. Volume data health changed from Inactive to Redundant. then L...
HI
Thanks for the reply , I have booted up in read only mode and to start with it appeared on Raidar with the status , in orange, "System start up, then it disappeared , then reappeared but now has gone again.
the power light is flashing , the small "Act" light also flashing and the drive lights steady blue.
I booted it up at about 9:30 this morning and its 11.00 , not sure where in the world you are LoL
Any ideas ?
regards
Dave
Dorsetboy72 wrote:
not sure where in the world you are LoL
Northeast US (Eastern US time zone).
Dorsetboy72 wrote:
Any ideas ?
Try powering down the NAS, and remove the disks (labeling by slot). Power up, and see if RAIDar reports a no disks status.
If it does, then try powering down again, and inserting just disk 2 in slot 2. Power up, and see if that boots read-only (with a degraded volume status). If it does, then I recommend backing up your data before proceeding further.
If the single disk test also fails, then power down again, and install both disks in their original slots. Next try an OS reinstall. Assuming that works, it will also
- reset the NAS admin password to password
- reset the NAS network config to use DHCP
- turn off volume quota (on the volume settings page)
Hi
I went through what you said and eventually got to OS reinstall , which i did but have no back up so chancing my arm !
Now I have the Raidar screen up at last , it says it is synicing 0% complete, disc 1 has circling arrow sysimbal and disc 2 is green .
had email "Volume data is Degraded."]
then shutting down , but it didnt
Volume data is Degraded
then
Resyncing started for Volume data.
then system is shutting but again it didnt
I cant get to NAS admin page yet
SO does this mean one disc is faulty ?
Do I let it carry on
regards
Dave
Dorsetboy72 wrote:
SO does this mean one disc is faulty ?
Do I let it carry on
It could be failing disk.
Personally I wouldn't let it carry on. I'd power up with only one disk (still read-only), and then run the disk test from the volume menu.
Dorsetboy72 wrote:
but have no back up so chancing
It's a big chance you are taking, you could easily lose all the data if you let the resync continue.
Dorsetboy72 wrote:
then system is shutting but again it didnt
Not sure why that is the case. Is the system on a power schedule? Scheduled shutdowns do check for a resync in progress, and will hold off the shutdown when one is running.
HI
I didnt let it carry on.
I rebooted with disc 2 in and apart from it told me the disc degraded it seemed ok and i cold get to the files
so i shutdown and rebooted with disc 1 in
Raidar screen says "Volume data -0 RAID Level 1 inactive 2.7TB (100% of 2.7TB used)
Also got this message on loading admin page
"ReadyNAS failed to boot successfully.
ReadyNAS detected that the installed disks contain an existing
ReadyNAS installation that failed to start properly.
If the disks do not contain critical data, you can format the disks from the
Volumes tab under System once you've completed the installation wizard.
If the disks contain critical data, follow these steps to address data accessibility:
Reboot the ReadyNAS and confirm if the ReadyNAS successfully boots.
Attempt an OS Reinstall, which applies fixes only to the operating system and does not
affect any data volume."
Note: Your ReadyNAS's network interface defaults to DHCP and the admin password
defaults to password,
Boot into read-only mode from your ReadyNAS's boot menu. Doing so will mount your
volume read-only, making data recoverable.
For further discussion, visit our community.
SuggestionsO Know get a back up disc !
if I get one how do i back (never done on this NAS) and presumably it would disc 2 , then could try to recover disc 1 as you suggest run disc test
Thanks for "holding my hand" on this , Im getting on a bit now (71 years old) and due to everthing working ok for quite a while ive got out of the habit doing IT jobs LoL
Thanks Dave
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