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Trusty old NV finally died, what next?
I have a trusty (well, used to be trusty) old NV (original model, not the +) that suddenly became unresponsive and had disk 2 and 4 lights on, then on a hard reboot it was completely dead. The ques...
If you had a friend with a functioning NV+, it would at least give you a message on the LED panel that would help diagnose the situation. Only a four bay sparc based ReadyNAS will accept your array intact. No currently produced ReadyNAS fits that situation.
Have you tried a spare drive in the NV to see if it will accept, format and initialize the disk? That would at least tell you if it is hardware or the array. The fact that the 1100 will do that with a spare disk, yet will not boot on your array is troubling.
You did not mention a backup. Is there a backup of the data and is it current and complete?
Have you tried a spare drive in the NV to see if it will accept, format and initialize the disk? That would at least tell you if it is hardware or the array. The fact that the 1100 will do that with a spare disk, yet will not boot on your array is troubling.
You did not mention a backup. Is there a backup of the data and is it current and complete?
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