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Netgear ReadyNas Ultra 6 and Frontview
Hello I bought a broken ReadyNas Ultra 6. I managed to start the NAS. Its flash memory is damaged and impossible to flash it because no access to the USB Boot. In windows it is recognized by a ...
Thank you for your answer.
I'm new to this forum and didn't know the moderator level for photos.
As for the usb key, it is a 2GB SD card in a reader. This key has already been used to flash Iomega ix4-200 and ix2-200 which are also very demanding at this level.
I'm not 100% sure it works on ReadyNas
But the key did not react in the same way on the 2.
About the defective:
- The Nas turns on
- The hard drive starts up
- The key lights up and flashes twice directly then nothing
On the correct NAS:
- The Nas turns on
- The hard drive starts up
- The key lights up and flashes twice
- +/- 14 seconds after starting, the key starts flashing again (I turned off the Nas at this time to avoid any false operation)
From Capturenetgear2a.jpg it's clear that the EEPROM is corrupt, so USB Boot Recovery wouldn't fix the problem. It may help if other files on the internal flash are corrupt, but it won't fix the EEPROM issue, so the NAS won't boot up fully and the OS won't know which model it's running on.
Fixing the EEPROM isn't difficult provided that the internal flash isn't failing, but it's not something that you can do without assistance.
With expansion limits and your plans to gradually fill it with 4TB drives you'd be better off running ReadyNAS OS 6 than the stock RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x firmware, as OS6 doesn't have the expansion limitations of RAIDiator-x86.
Is it possible to install ReadyNas OS 6 without having access to the USB boot or frontview?
No, and if mdgm is correct and the EEPROM is corrupt, it would do you no good if you could. Frankly, the screen shots are of such low resolution I can't tell a thing from them, but mdgm is the right one to know. It also does seem that you have properly diagnosed that the USB key should work, but doesn't.
Can you get to the boot menu?
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