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Simple question for 600-A rebuild
If I want to write the Radiator 4.1.7.7 image directly to CF with Mac dd, do I write it to the entire physical CF drive (e.g., /dev/disk1) or to a partition on the CF drive (e.g., /dev/disk1s1). If t...
Well, I have had a change of heart. Writing to the CF device directly is the way to go. Here is why: On my 600-A, if I use the frontview-written OS upgrade (i.e., on a FAT-16 partition on the CF card as frontview always does) or my own recovery image written to the FAT 16 partition to do a factory reset, I get stuck after the "installation" step, a corrupted OS on the CF that needs to be recovered before continuing to boot, and either the "0MB free" problem or no disks listed as available for RAID.
On the other hand, if I write to the CF directly (not to a partition) before I do the factory reset, then everything goes as it is supposed to at least for RAID-5 (at least the one time I tried; I am not about to waste more time on this now that I have things working). I suspect it will also solve the similar problems for X-RAID but I am not going to waste another few days trying it out. This is really pretty sad on Netgear's part if they are writing the OS upgrade through frontview incorrectly so that a factory reset doesn't work on a 600-A. There have been similar problem postings for the NV+ but I don't know if it is the same issue.
Here are my detailed posts on my trials and tribulations:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=54354&p=315747#p315747
On the other hand, if I write to the CF directly (not to a partition) before I do the factory reset, then everything goes as it is supposed to at least for RAID-5 (at least the one time I tried; I am not about to waste more time on this now that I have things working). I suspect it will also solve the similar problems for X-RAID but I am not going to waste another few days trying it out. This is really pretty sad on Netgear's part if they are writing the OS upgrade through frontview incorrectly so that a factory reset doesn't work on a 600-A. There have been similar problem postings for the NV+ but I don't know if it is the same issue.
Here are my detailed posts on my trials and tribulations:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=54354&p=315747#p315747
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