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ummjay
Oct 15, 2024Aspirant
Ready Nas Power Blinking Blue
Hi - I was moving house, and plugged in my Ready Nas to a USBC switch into my mac laptop. It was working previously while I was in my temporary home, and now that i'm in my home (while I wait for my network to be completed), I tried again to hook up the ReadyNas to my USbC switch into my mac laptop.
The power button keeps blinking blue. On my mac, under network I see NAS-B7-B7-5E (and not the previous name of my NAS storage). When I click to try and open the content, it says connection failed, and my NAS just keeps blinking blue.
I did try to power off, take out 1 drive, and see if that helped, which it didn't. Then I powered off and did the same to the other. Same thing.
I downloaded RAIDar on my mac, again shows the Name above (and not the NAS name I had previously), and says status healthy, firmware 6.10.8. When I try and type the IP address in a browser, I get a login prompt, but can't seem to login.
After waiting sometime, the blue light is now solid. Logging into the ip address webpage directly (using the default admin/password) seemed to get me somewhere, but says no disks detected, and says I should swap the locations? I hope my data didnt get wiped!
Any ideas on what might be going on? It was working fine last week.
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ummjay wrote:
Hi - I was moving house, and plugged in my Ready Nas to a USBC switch into my mac laptop. It was working previously while I was in my temporary home, and now that i'm in my home (while I wait for my network to be completed), I tried again to hook up the ReadyNas to my USbC switch into my mac laptop.
What ReadyNAS model do you own? Unfortunately data loss is a real possibility.
Do you have any experience with the linux command line?
- ummjayAspirant
nice to hear from you again Stephen. I recalled you helped me a year or so ago with an issue with this device.
RN212 – 2 BAY Desktop ReadyNAS Storage
Model / Version: RN212
I was reading something on the forums about maybe the upgrade to 6.10 causing an issue? I don't really have Linux experience, but with instructions I can manage.
- SandsharkSensei
You cannot access a ReadyNAS via the USB port, so I'm not sure what you are trying to do with the USB switch. You can access it via direct connection of the Ethernet cables or through a switch w/o DHCP if you set the static IPs correctly.
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