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ReadyNAS202 is not connecting to the network
My ReadyNAS 202 has suddenly stopped showing up on the network at the assigned IP address. Almost everything on the device, including the main ethernet port activity lights appears to show things wor...
davidch wrote:
I've done some reading here in regard to similar issues but it all seems very complicated, and further the RAIDar software often mentioned will not install on my Windows laptop as it can't find Java even though I have Java 17 installed.
Try this JRE
davidch wrote:
My ReadyNAS 202 has suddenly stopped showing up on the network at the assigned IP address. Almost everything on the device, including the main ethernet port activity lights appears to show things working as expected. The one exception is that the secondary ethernet port shows two solid green lights even though nothing is plugged in (given I never see the back of the device I have no idea if this is something new or just normal).
Have you tried moving the ethernet cable to the secondary port?
Also, have you tried rebooting the NAS? The clean shutdown procedure from the front panel is on pages 35-37 here:
davidch wrote:
Unfortunately I'm not even sure how my ReadyNAS is configured in detail - it has 2 disks and I expect I accepted the default RAID configuration.
Then it is RAID-1 (linux software raid, using mdadm), and using the BTRFS file system.
Thanks for the response Stephen.
> Try this JRE
I can obtain various JRE versions, but note RAIDar states it needs at least JRE 11 - hence I expected 17 to be fine.
> Have you tried moving the ethernet cable to the secondary port?
Yes
> Also, have you tried rebooting the NAS?
Of course, many times.
> Then it is RAID-1 (linux software raid, using mdadm), and using the BTRFS file system.
Thanks. That rings a bell from when I had to do recovery from the MyBookWorld NAS.
davidch wrote:
I can obtain various JRE versions, but note RAIDar states it needs at least JRE 11 - hence I expected 17 to be fine.
Netgear hasn't maintained RAIDar. The JRE I posted works with RAIDar 6.5 (and everything newer I've located will not).
davidch wrote:
> Have you tried moving the ethernet cable to the secondary port?
Yes
> Also, have you tried rebooting the NAS?
Of course, many times.
I'd like to see if RAIDar can find it.
If it doesn't, then power down and remove the disks (labeling by slot, so you can return them to the same bays later). Then power up diskless, and see if RAIDar finds them with a no-disks status.
Make sure the NAS is powered down before adding back the disks.
Okay I will try with JRE 8. This is the error I got from RAIDar - and it is a bit confusing as it states OpenJDK 11 or later, but then 64-bit JRE 6 or later (which really makes no sense - I'm a Java VM developer - as you can't require something from 11 but still run on 6.
Thanks
RAIDar won't run. It flashes up blank command window which then disappears and nothing happens.
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