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ReadyNAS NV+ V2 HDD Locked
I appreciate that there are other strings on this forum that deal with locked HDDs however NONE give a public solution.
I am completely lost as to how to unlock the 4 HDD that are locked in my NAS. This is causing the NAS to go through a complete boot cycle every time it is powered up. (Hours).
Someone please help.
I am receiving two email messages upon each reboot.
1. Missing shares detected (nas-A0-A0-5B)
The paths for the shares listed below could not be found. Typically, this occurs when the ReadyNAS is unable to access the data volume.
media
backup
2. Volume scan failed to run properly. (nas-A0-A0-5B)
***** File system check performed at Wed Jan 10 09:07:57 EST 2018 *****
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/c/c
Possibly non-existent device?
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TonyPinder wrote:
I appreciate that there are other strings on this forum that deal with locked HDDs however NONE give a public solution.
Tried to unlock using PuTTY however could not establish a connection with the NAS.
Removed drives (after power down) and access them directly on another computer however the drives do not show up.
I can only conclude that this is due to the drives being locked therefore they are prevented from booting even out of the NAS.
I will search through a couple of old desktop computers that I have and hope that one has an old version of BIOS that allows drive format etc.
The NAS has hardly been used and I was intending on using it to back up my photography images so the unit would again only be powered up occasionally.
Any further advice very welcome.If you have a scratch disk, you could do a fresh install using that disk in the v2 (by itself).
Then enable ssh, and hot-insert the locked disk.
You should then be able to unlock it with hdparm.
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