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ReadyNAS NV+ stall during File System check at 19%
My ReadyNAS NV+ is stalling during the File System check at 19%. It is visible in RAIDar, and all four disks register as healthy, until the 19% point is reached, at which point RAIDar cannot find t...
arefem wrote:
My question now is, is there a procedure for adding the new blank disks that will preserve the existing NAS settings?
Unfortunately the settings are stored on the disks, so replacing them with blank ones will require that you set up the NAS again.
Unfortunately I am not able to log in as it never gets past the disk check. However, I have accepted that I will just need to treat it as a new install with fresh disks. I will keep the existing disks for possible recovery as a separate exercise.
Is setting it up with four new disks as straightforward as putting in the new disks and powering up, and it will set itself up with the default settings? Will the name and password have changed?
My initial area of doubt is that it was set up as an iTunes server. My recollection is that this was just a tickbox setting, so I am hoping that is easy to reinstate.
Yes, it's basically that easy. There is a time-out (10 min, I think), after which it will automatically move forward with XRAID volume creation. You can use RAIDar to skip that wait and/or switch to FlexRAID. Remember that anything you've done to get around the TLS 1.0 issue will no longer be present, so you'll need to use a browser that still supports it. The default admin password will be netgear1. Also remember that the max drive size for an NV+ V1 is 2TB.
Just curious, but what is the basis of this limit? Is it the hardware? I've run drives as large as 18TB without an issue in my various units running os4.
SamirD wrote:
Just curious, but what is the basis of this limit? Is it the hardware? \
No GPT support is one aspect. This particular NAS uses RAID acceleration hardware, and that is possibly another part of it.
SamirD wrote:
I've run drives as large as 18TB without an issue in my various units running os4.
There are limits to expansion in OS4.
- A volume cannot be expanded over 16 TiB
- A volume cannot be expanded more than 8 TiB larger than its initial size.
OS6 doesn't have either of these limits.
Something has just occurred to me. While this forum correspondence has been going on, I have transitioned from PC to Mac. Will I need to do anything different in order to access the NAS from the Mac?
arefem wrote:
Something has just occurred to me. While this forum correspondence has been going on, I have transitioned from PC to Mac. Will I need to do anything different in order to access the NAS from the Mac?
You'll need to enable afp as a file shareing protocol.
On the web interface, you'll need to use a down-rev version of Firefox to reach frontview to work around the SSL protocol version issue (safari won't connect).
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