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Ready Nas 314 - WOL failing and device not turning on when power restored
Until a year or so back, my ReadyNas 314 would respond to: 1) Wake on Lan. 2) Auto power up upon mains power restoration. This was perfect as when the office power was switched on in the morning,...
JPElectrical wrote:
Until a year or so back, my ReadyNas 314 would respond to:
1) Wake on Lan.
2) Auto power up upon mains power restoration.
This was perfect as when the office power was switched on in the morning, the unit would automatically start up and be ready to used within minutes.For some reason the unit will no longer do this.
Can you let us know if WoL also fails with 6.10.8?
How are you shutting down the NAS at night?
WOL does not work on the 314 even with the latest firmware.
Both NAS Units are powered off either by several presses of the power button, or if left on, the unit will switch off automatically at 3am via the inbuilt software power timer... Following this at 3.10am mains power automatically switches off to the unit via a
timer. This inhibits the unit from automatically turning back on again due to the poorly designed built in power timer which doesn't allow discrete off and on timers.
My other unit is a ReadyNas Ultra 4. Same firmware. Works fine.
Both NAS Units are powered off either by several presses of the power button, or if left on, the unit will switch off automatically at 3am via the inbuilt software power timer... Following this at 3.10am mains power automatically switches off to the unit via a
timer. This inhibits the unit from automatically turning back on again due to the poorly designed built in power timer which doesn't allow discrete off and on timers.
My other unit is a ReadyNas Ultra 4. Same firmware. Works fine.
JPElectrical wrote:
This inhibits the unit from automatically turning back on again due to the poorly designed built in power timer which doesn't allow discrete off and on timers.FWIW, Current firmware does allow you to schedule discrete off and on power events.
Not clear to me whether the two RN314 issues are hardware or software (note I don't have that model NAS). I did check that WoL is working properly with 6.10.9 on my own NAS.
I guess you could try 6.10.9
Or maybe downgrade to whatever you were running before you installed 6.10.8
- I didn't know the timer did that. I put a request in for this functionality about 6 or 7 years ago as the unit would automatically start at the begining of the timer block. I then built a power off work around to stop the unit powering on if we didn't need the drive for a few days... Thanks for this. The drive is now set to shut down only.
I'll test the firmware shortly and get back.- Sadly, updating the firmware didn't help... also it's been so long and so many firmwares. I have no idea when it stopped working. I'd not know what firmware to go back to.
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