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Not what you are expecting from NAS
When you are using NAS, you are expecting to get your data back from the unit. Not the case with this one. Admin page or/and network share is not reachable. It is better to save data on SD card than...
ReadyNAS NV+
It is powering, booting. While it is booting it is accessible through RAIDar.
After some time, indicator show the IP address, as if booting is finished. After that you cannot connect to the unit, as if there is not ethernet connection at all. At the same time the router reports that the unit requested and got IP addres from DHCP list and active (ping works).
But at the same time RAIDar shows that no NAS is accessible in the network. Blue power light slowly turing on/off, "Act" indicator blinking.
Every next startup is following the same steps.
Waited 2 days, without restarting, the same - no connection, slowly glowing power light, 'Act" is blinking, correct IP addres on the display. What is it doing - no idea.
From a browser, can you use the {NAS IP address}/admin shown on the front panel - in fact, is that a proper IP address, maybe DHCP is a problem or something.
If you pull the Ethernet cable out, I think it wakes up the display, and then 'reconnects' to the network when you plug the cable back in. I can try it out, but I only have a Duo (no display).
Also check/report the IP address of your PC.
HTTP request for {NAS_IP}/admin (or /shares) report the same: "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"
I can see that DHCP provides the IP and the same IP is displayed on the display of ReadyNAS. I revoking the IP, new IP is provided during next boot.
PC just fine - I'm working all the day remotely, so connection is stable withing local network and outside of it.I see that the unit is not responsive, so willl try the Factory Reset later, does not matter, data is already unreachable.
I would not do that unless you have a full backup.
if you do, then fine. Otherwise there are more things to try.
How long have you been using it since a clean install?
In Windows explorer, you could try to navigate to \\{nas_ip}\share - important to use the IP address.
After this, you could try a firmware reinstall, which doesn't need a full loss of data. What is your disk configuration? Do you have a old hard disk, you could pull out you drives and use the old one for testing.
Ok, here is the story
Did Firmware reinstall with spare old harddrive
After that I put back all the drives in order. I have 4 in RAID5 config.Restarted.
After that I got the message on display ""Booting... Found bad disk"
RAIDar reports Disk 1 has about 18000 SATA errors. Also showing "Disk C is dead". I put another drive instead of Drive1. Rebooted. Again displaying that disk C is dead. No option to rebuild the RAID nor in RAIDar, nor in ReadyNAS Frontview app.
Now, the question, why it started to report this only after I reinstalled firmware.
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