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Question about Volumes in a ReadyNAS 104
I have a ReadyNAS 104 with 4 1TB disks in. I had to remove one to test something, but upon replacing it, the drive is showing up black. My volume data is showing as Degraded. I've tried formatting t...
Andy101 wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS 104 with 4 1TB disks in. I had to remove one to test something,
Best approach to this is power down the NAS before removing the disk, and leave it powered down until after the disk is put back.
Andy101 wrote:
I've tried formatting the drive and hitting the Global spare button.
Formatting should have started a resync. No idea why you would hit the spare button if the goal was to put it back in the array.
Are you running X-RAID or FlexRAID? (If there is a green stripe on the X-RAID control, you are running X-RAID).
You could try removing the disk again and then unformatting it on a Windows PC. Go into the windows disk manager and remove every partition (Windows calls them volumes). Then hot-insert the disk into the NAS, and see if it starts to sync.
Andy101 wrote:
I have a ReadyNAS 104 with 4 1TB disks in. I had to remove one to test something,
Best approach to this is power down the NAS before removing the disk, and leave it powered down until after the disk is put back.
Andy101 wrote:
I've tried formatting the drive and hitting the Global spare button.
Formatting should have started a resync. No idea why you would hit the spare button if the goal was to put it back in the array.
Are you running X-RAID or FlexRAID? (If there is a green stripe on the X-RAID control, you are running X-RAID).
You could try removing the disk again and then unformatting it on a Windows PC. Go into the windows disk manager and remove every partition (Windows calls them volumes). Then hot-insert the disk into the NAS, and see if it starts to sync.
Thanks Stephen,
That did the trick.
Thanks for your help.
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