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lobbie1978
Nov 08, 2021Tutor
ReadyNAS 102 stuck at 'Checking file system' after USB Recovery
Hi guys,
Been using a RN-102 for years now and I've been very happy with it and the support for it as well.
Since last weekend I had my first major issue and that is that the unit started to do weird things;
- NFS shares were unreachable
- Unit didn't boot
- Frontview unreachable
Up to the point I decided to do a Factory Reset yesterday. After the reset, the unit still didn't came back online properly:
In RAIDar I get various Status messages:
- Management service offline
- Installing (stuck)
- Starting up (stuck)
I did get a message that the DISKS are OK (which are 2 SSD's)
After some searching I found that a possible cause could be a filled up Root partition after which I did some cleaning, but no joy.
Today I decided to do the USB recovery after which the unit powered down as expected.
I powered the unit up but now it's stuck at 'Checking file system' and it has been stuck at this Status for more than 2 hours:
Obviously, because I did a Factory Reset prior, I have no SSH access anymore.
Any ideas what could be going on and how to fix this?
Much appreciated guys and thanks in advance for your help
- Rob
Maybe connect the disks to a PC (either with SATA or a USB adapter/dock) and test them there?
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Maybe connect the disks to a PC (either with SATA or a USB adapter/dock) and test them there?
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for the suggestion. I did that. I removed the disks from the NAS and connected them to my Windows laptop (with a USB to SATA dock).
From there I removed the partitions and re-formatted the disks.
After installing the disks back into the NAS, I entered the boot menu and started Factory Default again.
Guess what? All good now! The NAS is back online and good to go! Jeej!
Thanks so much! Very happy this worked :)
Problem solved!
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