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Readynas 312 - bricked after firmware update attempt
Hello, I attempted a firmware update of my readynas 312 to latest version (6.10.6) from a few major versions (6.5.x I think), using the admin portal. Left it overnight and came back to system that ...
That warning only applies to ARM based units, which the 312 is not.
Often, failures after an OS update are really latent things that would have happened on the next re-boot. Regular maintrenance (scrubs and balances) can help prevent or at least point out a problem before it gets that far.
The first thing I recommend you try, assuming you have a RAID1 volume, is booting from each of the drives individually.
Yes a RAID1. No luck, still the same behaviour with one drive connected.
I did try something new, I found a 8GB USB thumb drive that has an activity light and noticed it did not light at all at any point when I attempted to boot from the drive (holding backup button). Is this useful for troubleshooting further? Does it tell us anything we didnt already know? I assume it's not getting to the part of the bootup process to even tell it to look at the USB drive?
If it's RAID1, you might be able to recover the data yourself by attaching one of the drives to a computer running Linux.
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