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Netgear ReadyNas Pro 6 corrupt firmware
First Netgear NAS user. I bought a defect Netgear ReadyNAS Pro 6. The previous owner said something went wrong during a firmware update and the NAS had some sort of corrupt firmware. It was 40Euro an...
This post How-to-update-BIOS-w-OS6-x-installed tells how to update the BIOS from OS6. While that part isn't applicable to you, it includes information on extracting the BIOS from the OS4.2.x package Netgear has provided and points to that package.
I guess the previous owner must have manually flashed the wrong BIOS. The add-on does check to make sure it uses the right image for the right board, but it doesn't check to see if the latest BIOS is already installed or not.
You can use USB Boot Recovery to put OS6 on the Pro 6 if you rename the standard OS6 x86_64 .img file to RAIDiator-x86-something. You do need to use the RAIDiator-x86 USB Boot Recovery tool. However USB Boot Recovery can wipe the EEPROM so this is not recommended unless USB Boot Recovery is really needed, which it may well be considering you don't know what the previous owner did.
There is an image to downgrade back to RAIDiator-x86 from OS6 that tricks OS6 into thinking that a RAIDiator-x86 image is an OS6 image (the reverse of what the image to put OS6 on does).
This seems to have been the case almost for sure. The NAS is now working properly. I noticed that if I boot it without any drive inserted it does appear in RaidAR (and reporting Firmware 6.80). At the time when this happened, last Friday, the latest version on Netgear website was 6.81. As soon as I was inserting either one of the 2 drives I had available the NAS was dissapearing from Raidar. I then removed all existing partitions from one of the drives and when I booted it with that drive inserted in in slot 1 (this is by the way a drive which is listed in Pro 6 compatibility list). I gave a message "Installing X-Raid firmware on the drive" and then I could connect and configure the NAS normally. It seems it quickly and automatically downloaded version 6.90 of firmware from the Internet since this is what it reports now. I like the interface which is clear and minimalistic and very responsive. First thing I did was to disable x-raid since I want Flex-raid instead. I also ordered a E7600 CPU and 2x2GB DDR2 6400 for Intel from Ebay (7 Euro + 10.50Euro). Most likely will use it with OS6 and not convert it to nas4free since upgrade to 8GB RAM is prohibitivelly expensive and Nas4Free with ZFS is recommended to have 8GB RAM minimum.
Thanks everyone for helping me out with this project.
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