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Aspirant

Jan 21, 2016

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Power Timer not turning on OS6 FW 6.4.1 - Legacy Ultra 6

I recently acquired an Ultra 6 Plus, which I upgraded to OS 6, FW 6.4.1, for use in backups. The Power Timer function (which I liked better in the old NV+ models, since I could specify minutes) turns...

mdgm-ntgr
Jan 23, 2016
kevinb1 wrote:

According to the bios_ver.log, I have a 05/26/2010 FLAME6-2 V1.1 product.

Ah then this is not an issue with OS6 on legacy at all. There is a known power on issue with an old BIOS on an Ultra 6.

You will need to update the BIOS to the latest: 06/10/2010: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin

Easiest way to install would be to:

1. Power down

2. Remove your disks (label order)

3. Put a scratch disk in (must not be from your array)

4. Do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)

5. Downgrade to RAIDiator-x86-4.2: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Community-Add-ons/Downgrade-to-RAIDiator-x86-from-ReadyNAS-OS-notsupported/td-p/859412
6. Install the BIOS update add-on

7. After you get an alert that the add-on has installed successfully, reboot and check bios_ver.log to make sure the BIOS has updated.

8. Update the box back to 6.4.1

9. Power down

10. Remove your scratch disk

11. Put your disks back in same order as before

12. Set the power timer again and see if it works

Note that it is important not to interrupt the BIOS upgrade whilst it is in progress as it would brick the system.

JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 21, 2016

Hello kevinb1,

You are using a legacy NAS unit but loaded an OS6, unfortunately, support center will not support this.

Can you try 6.4.2 (RC1) and see if that helps?

Regards,

kevinb1
Aspirant
Jan 21, 2016
Do you know of some code relevant to the issue in 6.4.2 RC1, or is this a shot in the dark?

I'm somewhat leery of betas and saw nothing in the release notes in https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Beta-Release/ReadyNASOS-6-4-2-RC1/m-p/999457#U999457 discussing this, except in the case of a power failure in a 32-bit RN (bugfix 12: [Beta 2] Fixed automatic poweron behavior after power loss when the last system state was powered on. (RN102/RN104/RN2120)).

I understand that this is a legacy device, but I would be unsurprised to find the problem on a currently-supported RN516 as well.
As you can see from my posted fix to OS6 6.2.2 Frontview gone-fixed without SSH , I'm not afraid to dig in, research, and post fixes, but I'd like a little assurance that the betaware in question would actually fix the problem.

Otherwise, I'm willing to look under the hood to help identify the problem, to help assure that the problem has a solution. This close to a new version, it would be really good to include such a fix in the next release, wouldn't you agree?

Any suggestions or pointers to help identify where the problem lies would be very welcome. I am more than happy to send logs as well.

-Kevin

JennC wrote:
Hello kevinb1,

You are using a legacy NAS unit but loaded an OS6, unfortunately, support center will not support this.

Can you try 6.4.2 (RC1) and see if that helps?

Regards,
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jan 21, 2016
  If a backup job is in progress the system won't power off till that completes.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 21, 2016
    mdgm wrote:
    
    If a backup job is in progress the system won't power off till that completes.
    
    If I understand the OP correctly, his real issue is that he can't get the NAS to turn on at the scheduled time, so he is forced to use WoL.