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ReadyNAS 202 is unalive, looking for compatible model so I can salvage disk contents
My old, very old, ReadyNAS 202 (RND-2E FW:V6.3.2) is very much unalive. It was purchased in June of 2016 and died about 3 years later. (3 months and 3 days after the warranty e There are a handful ...
MilesFromShore wrote:
The 202 just doesn't boot at all. No computer recognizes an device being attached so I assume the problem is on the device end and not the drives.
That doesn't follow, it could certainly be a drive issue. The NAS boots from the drives.
Start by removing the drives (labeling by slot as you remove them). Then power up the NAS with no disks, and see if RAIDar can find the NAS.
You could also look in your router's attached device list, and see if the NAS is there.
Are you seeing any signs of power when you try to boot the NAS?
Let me rephrase ... didn't boot at all.
Blinking blue LEDs for what seemed like an eternity eventually turning to solid blue.
The device was in a shipping container from Long Beach to Hawaii. Other electronics also failed after the trip. All the drives came with me on the plane.
I picked up a laptop (now dead) and ran the CAT cable straight to the laptop. RAIDar didn't detect. Still nothing but blue lights.
Brought the device to friends and got the same results.
Since then the device has been sitting in a box, about 4 years now. I just pulled it's box out of storage.
It's rusty but does the same blue light scenario when powered up but ... I can't find the drawers and the tape peeled off the drives.
Am I screwed?
MilesFromShore wrote:
I can't find the drawers and the tape peeled off the drives.
So
- no drive trays
- blue LEDS when you boot the NAS up diskless
Does the LED pattern match the "no disks" pattern here:
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 configuration
MilesFromShore wrote:
Am I screwed?Not if at least one of the disks is healthy. But you do need the disk trays if you want to try to resurrect your NAS.
- The disk(s) can be mounted in a standard linux system. You can then offload the data. This would be the least expensive optino, but requires the most technical skill. We can give some help here.
- You can also purchase the version of ReclaiMe that supports BTRFS and install that on a Windows PC. That would also let you offload the files.
- You could also get a used ReadyNAS that runs OS-6 firmware. That includes the RN10x, RN2xx RN31x, RN4xx, RN5xx, RN6xx models. You could then insert the disks in those models, and power up - the NAS should boot.
On (3) - Older Ultra and Pro models would also work, though you would need to convert those NAS to OS-6 before you insert your disks.
It could be the power brick. But if RAIDar doesn't find it even with no drives, that's not likely.
One thing that is critical if you go with a replacement unit is that you know what version of firmware was on the NAS. Do you know that's the version you had, or is that what it says it shipped with and you may have updated it? There is a mandatory upgrade path for ARM based units:
- ReadyNAS 102, 104, and 2120 systems must not be updated directly to 6.10.x from 6.3.x or older firmware. They must first be updated to either 6.2.5 or 6.3.5, then to 6.5.2, and then to 6.10.x.
- ReadyNAS 202, 204, 212 and 212 systems must not be updated directly to 6.10.x from 6.3.x. They must first be updated to 6.3.5, then 6.5.2, and then to 6.10.x.
And if the firmware on the NAS is a different version, an auto-update may occur and create issues.
I believe that's not a problem if you go with an Intel based replacement, but I've never done so.
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