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RN214 Shows Failed! Message on boot
I've just purchased an RN21400 and have populated with 4x 3TB WD RED HDD's. The unit will power up and shows all 4 drive LEDs. However, the only message displayed after Booting... is Failed! with t...
tviner1964 wrote:
However, I think the drive was pulled from the unit before it had fully booted resulting in the failed condition.
USB recovery just puts the firmware install image back into the flash memory. I don't think pulling a drive during installation would have any effect on the flash, so I think there is a bit of a mystery on what happened.
But the good news is that the recovery was successful.
Many thanks for the assist - USB recovery has worked and unit is now responding on RAIDar.
According to the chap I bought this from it was tested by installing a drive to prove it worked.
However, I think the drive was pulled from the unit before it had fully booted resulting in the failed condition.
tviner1964 wrote:
However, I think the drive was pulled from the unit before it had fully booted resulting in the failed condition.
USB recovery just puts the firmware install image back into the flash memory. I don't think pulling a drive during installation would have any effect on the flash, so I think there is a bit of a mystery on what happened.
But the good news is that the recovery was successful.
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