Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot

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shannond100 wrote:

 

I am trying to set up my old RND2000 to use as a network drive for my raspberry pi.  But when it powers up, the leds blink like it is about to boot normally, but enter a continuous loop of disk 1 blinking (once per second) 3 times then three rapid blinks of the power led, act and both hdd status'. 

 

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The LED status "decoder" is

1 – Vendor mismatch
2 – No disks detected
3 – Bad contents on root partition of disks
4 – Flash error
5 – Unsupported RAID configuration

You appear to have issue 3 - likely because you formatted the disk in Windows.

You can either remove the partitions using the Windows disk manager, or you can do a factory reset via the boot menu.

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shannond100 wrote:

Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2)

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To remove any doubt here - 

• If your NAS says "ReadyNAS Duo" on the front panel, then it is the original Duo (called the v1 here).
• If your NAS says "ReadyNAS Duo v2" on the front panel, then it is the second generation Duo (called the v2 here).

Ignore other labels, they are not relevant when determining the platform you own (and just add confusion).

Assuming the Duo v1, instructions on accessing the boot menu are in the hardware manual here (see page 15):

• https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/Duov1_NV+v1_HW_en_06Dec11.pdf

Also, keep in mind that the max disk size supported by the v1 is 2 TB.