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ReadyNAS NV+ ate my WD20EZRX (2TB Green)?
Hi guys, I bought two WD20EZRX - 00D8PB0 2TB "Green" drives to fit in my NV+ (v1, I guess - the PCB still says "Infrant"). The WD Green 20EARX model is on the compatibility list, and the EZRX sho...
Once I find a system that will accept the disks, I'll try boot into Linux and try to remove the lock.
As for the cause, the drives were not locked by me. Nor were they unreadable when I put them into the ReadyNAS. The disks were new, in sealed packaging from WD. The locked/unreadable status resulted only after they failed in the ReadyNAS. Whatever is preventing their use now was done by the ReadyNAS.
It's possible that whatever is causing the "Bad Disk" error is taking the firmware down a code path where it does not unlock the drive afterwards.
As for the cause, the drives were not locked by me. Nor were they unreadable when I put them into the ReadyNAS. The disks were new, in sealed packaging from WD. The locked/unreadable status resulted only after they failed in the ReadyNAS. Whatever is preventing their use now was done by the ReadyNAS.
It's possible that whatever is causing the "Bad Disk" error is taking the firmware down a code path where it does not unlock the drive afterwards.
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