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ReadyNAS NV - Can't connect
Bought in 2006 as Infrant ReadyNAS NV, and it worked well until now. I replaced a couple failed disks over the years with no problem. Last week my ATT fiber gateway was replaced last week and now th...
The ReadyNAS NV started up fine and is running on it's original RAID disks, and thankfully, I was able to get all the data copied off of the NAS! Thanks to everyone on the thread for your assistance! :smileyvery-happy:
One weird thing:
With the test disk installed, Raidar showed the NAS was running on lastest firmware.
But with the old RAID array disks installed the firmware version shown in Raidar now says it's still running firmware "4.01c1-p1" The NAS has not updated the old disks to the newer software. I will retire it now anyway so doesn't matter.
I would like to make a donation in thanks for your assistance StephenB. Can you PM your paypal addy?
Thanks
Rich
When connected to the router, does the NAS show up as a connected device in the router's interface?
Does it show up on RAIDar with the drives removed?
If the unit is set to DHCP and there is no DHCP server available, then it will default to 192.168.168.168, not the address to which it was previously assigned. So set your laptop to 192.168.168.xxx and try again. If it is set to a static IP, then you used the right process.
If that works, then we can move forward and try to figure out why it doesn't appear on your network when connected to the router.
If something has happened to your NAS hardware and the array is intact, then an NV or NV+ will work to access the data. But you are buying something that's quite old. Frankly, I think the going price on eBay is a bit steep, too.
There are other ways to recover the data, too. But let's try and get your NAS working first.
Thanks for your reply Sandshark
ReadyNAS doen't appear in router list of connected devices
With drives removed there is no change, other than 4 disk lights blinking green instead of 3 lights solid with 3 disks installed.
I rebooted the ReadyNas with no ethernet connected to force it to 192.168.168.168, then direct connected to PC set to IP 192.168.168.200 with mask 255.255.255.0. Raidar could not see it. Raidar was working 2 weeks ago over the LAN.
Thanks
Netgear Customer Support can't help me since my Infrant ReadyNAS did not come with a serial number! I bought it from Amazon in 2006, but the serial plate is blank. So I'm very appreciative of the support here on the forum.
I just purchased a used Infrant ReadyNAS NV from ebay seller, he said it works and ebay gives money back guarantee, so hopefully that will work out.
Is there anything I should do to the "new" unit before I install my drives and power it up?
Should I do a factory reset on it first?
Should I install a single scratch drive to see if it works?
Thanks for any ideas
Rich
Rich17 wrote:
Is there anything I should do to the "new" unit before I install my drives and power it up?
Should I install a single scratch drive to see if it works?
If the firmware install image in the flash doesn't match the OS on the drives (which is almost a certainty), then the boot loader will attempt to install whatever firmware is in the flash onto the drives. That could be a problem, as there are some downgrades that could result in data loss.
Normally I'd tell you to do a factory install on a scratch disk first, and then update the same firmware as you had on the old NAS. But unfortunately, you don't know what firmware that was. So what you need to do instead is update the firmware to the currently shipping version (which is 4.1.16): https://kb.netgear.com/000038792/RAIDiator-Version-4-1-16-Sparc. Extract the binary from the zip, and then install that binary with frontview.
After that I suggest making sure that all the bays in the replacement NAS work. You can easily test that by booting up the NAS with the scratch disk in each slot. If that works, then migrate your original disks (keeping them in slot order). The migration process will then also update the OS on the disks to 4.1.16.
Rich17 wrote:
Should I do a factory reset on it first?
No, and in fact you can't. The factory reset installs the OS onto the disks from the flash install image. That simply can't be done if there are no disks installed.
Makes perfect sense and I'm glad I asked.
I will update the thread when I get into it.
Thank you, StephenB!
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