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Unable to find readynas duo rnd 2110 v2 on my network and unable to reset to factory settings
Hello, I have a readynas duo rnd 2110 v2 that seems to boot up fine, led's are lit not flashing, but I cannot find it in my network. I have attempted to find it using raidar, and advanced network ...
- StephenB
Success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to thank you because without your help, I would have given up a long time ago.
This nas frustrated me for a couple of weeks straight, but I don't give up easily.
This is what I did in case it helps anyone else.
I had to get an old router and configure it with a static ip of 192.168.168.1 and enable dhcp on it.
Then i configured my laptop to accept dhcp ip assignment and I connected it to the router.
I did an os reinstall on the nas with just disk one and then I connected it to the router.
I started raidar and it found the nas right away, and the setup button was not greyed out.
I got an error about the browser and had to enable my old internet explorer as the default browser, and after that raidar was able to open the frontview interface.
I could not use the browser to set it up and had to use raidar.
I cannot thank you enough for sticking with me and all my questions.
God bless you!
cboudet wrote:
Sorry I don't know what SMR is.
Shingled Magnetic Recording.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-disks-are-being-submarined-into-unexpected-channels/
That is contrasted with CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording).
cboudet wrote:
And how can I tell when I am lookin at a disk?
Both Western Digital and Seagate now have SMR/CMR on their data sheets (in response to sharp criticism like the arstechnica article above).
cboudet wrote:
Is it critical to use the recommended disks? I think I checked the list when I bought these, but I don't remember, it has been a few years.
Personally I wouldn't use an SMR drive in a NAS. So I'd check that. If your drives were purchased some years ago, then there is a good chance they are CMR.
If you mean Netgear's hardware compatibility list when you say "the list", then checking that is a waste of time. The list is very out of date. So I now recommend CMR NAS-purposed drives (like the Red Plus and Ironwolf) or enterprise class. Other drives might well work, but these are safe choices.
Thanks for the information.
I don't know if this is going to help determine what is wrong, but It seems like the raidar is able to find the nas for about one minute while it is booting up, but after about a minute or less, it does not find it and shows a help screen.
I took a couple of screen captures so you can see what I see.
I have only been able to accomplish this after doing an os reinstall with the laptop connected directly to the nas ethernet as you suggested.
I have not been able to find it through the browser.
Is there a way to reinstall the firmware with a usb drive without logging in the normal way?
cboudet wrote:
Is there a way to reinstall the firmware with a usb drive without logging in the normal way?
There is a USB recovery process, but I am not sure if that will help or not.
When the system is no longer detected, are you seeing a blinking LED pattern?
LED blink behavior for 2 disk systems is three quick blinks of all disk LEDs and the backup LED, followed by an 1s delay, followed by a number of slow blinks. The number of slow blinks will be the error code. Current error codes: 1 - Vendor mismatch 2 - No disks detected 3 - Bad contents on root partition of disks 4 - Flash error 5 - Unsupported RAID configurationNo blinking led's.
It shows the two disc led's solid
- StephenB
Success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to thank you because without your help, I would have given up a long time ago.
This nas frustrated me for a couple of weeks straight, but I don't give up easily.
This is what I did in case it helps anyone else.
I had to get an old router and configure it with a static ip of 192.168.168.1 and enable dhcp on it.
Then i configured my laptop to accept dhcp ip assignment and I connected it to the router.
I did an os reinstall on the nas with just disk one and then I connected it to the router.
I started raidar and it found the nas right away, and the setup button was not greyed out.
I got an error about the browser and had to enable my old internet explorer as the default browser, and after that raidar was able to open the frontview interface.
I could not use the browser to set it up and had to use raidar.
I cannot thank you enough for sticking with me and all my questions.
God bless you!
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