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Problems with ReadyNAS
I thought it would be easy to upgrade to a 2x3Tb when a 2Tb drive died on Ch1. I was wrong. Would someone please tell me how to do this. I installed the 3Tb in Ch1, but it still says 'drive dead' in ...
Did you try removing the 3TB drive and rebooting? Then hot-insert again.
Was the 3 TB drive blank/unformatted?
I bought the new 3Tb drives from Amazon, they are unformatted. I have tried that, but will try again.
Even with the 3Tb drive removed, still shows the 2Tb drive as 'dead' - wtf?
GaryDD wrote:
Even with the 3Tb drive removed, still shows the 2Tb drive as 'dead' - wtf?
There are at least 2 possibilities.
One is that the sata port in the NAS itself failed, so it is not detecting any removals insertions.
Another is that the linux disk driver disabled the port when the old hard drive failed (if the drive were seriously misbehaving). Rebooting should fix that - if you already tried rebooting, perhaps try shutting down, removing the main power cord for a couple of minutes, and then power up with the bay empty.
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