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Upgrade to WD30EFRX drives is failing
ReadyNAS Ultra 2 RAIDiator 4.2.30 (Latest) My old 3TB Seagates are failing so I am trying to replace them with WD WD30EFRX drives. The drives are supported according to the HCL (https://kb.netge...
Solutions to my original problem are spread out across multiple posts:
- Do a factory reset:
- I think using dd or hdparam is very useful:
- But I also feel the discovery I made was critical:
Thanks to all that helped out. Restore is complete and I have been running a couple of days now with the new drives. I even powered down to move the ReadyNAS into its permanent location.
I would ask the same thing, but nope...power button. Exactly as I stated in my details.
It makes me feel a bit better the first response was not, "You fool! It says press the power button in the directions!!"
Again, this was on the older Ultra 2 box, not the 212. But I believe the directions are the exact same.
meisner wrote:
Again, this was on the older Ultra 2 box, not the 212. But I believe the directions are the exact same.
The hardware manual for the ultra says reset too.
meisner wrote:
It makes me feel a bit better the first response was not, "You fool! It says press the power button in the directions!!"
I'm feeling a bit better because you managed to get the default to actually work :smileyhappy:
The restores (config and data) finished overnight and it appears everything is running correctly.
Thank you so much for the help. Is it possible to mark multiple replies as the "accepted solution"?
Solutions to my original problem are spread out across multiple posts:
- Do a factory reset:
- I think using dd or hdparam is very useful:
- But I also feel the discovery I made was critical:
Thanks to all that helped out. Restore is complete and I have been running a couple of days now with the new drives. I even powered down to move the ReadyNAS into its permanent location.
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