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Readynas stuck on booting after failed manual firmware update
Hello everyone, My attempt to update my readynas nvx yesterday failed an now the device is stuck on booting. No matter which option I choose the displyy shows Booting... (even in tech support mod...
I am having actually the same problem as that one https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Stuck-booting-ReadyNAS-NVX/td-p/1444308 . Although there is no real describtion of the solution there.
Kochev wrote:
I am having actually the same problem as that one https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Stuck-booting-ReadyNAS-NVX/td-p/1444308 . Although there is no real describtion of the solution there.
First of all, the correct firmware for your NVX is 4.2.31.
Your link starts with a suggestion that someone had tried to upgrade the NVX to OS 6 firmware. Is that something you tried? That will fail (as the original poster knew).
Sorry. I had to write an update. I have successfully restored the firmware. The update process and the tools are extremely buggy. And I had to try at least ten times before making this work.
And yes, I have tried to update the firmware to version 6 because I did had the chance to find inforation that the this version is not supported on the NVX. It is really pitty that this device does not support smb 2 and 3. I understand that it is an old one but Microsoft has introduced the smb2 protocol mid 2009 and the last firmware for this Readynas is from 2017 with no smb 2 or 3 support. What a joke!
Are any of the PC's you currently use 11 years old? I doubt it, so why do you expect an 11 year old NAS to still be a viable primary storage device?
The 32-bit limitation of the NVX is quite a limitation, even if Netgear did have a desire to do a more extenasive update than the security updates they have done in more recent years. If your use exposes SMB1 to the internet, then it's time you moved on to an updated piece of hardware. If it does not, then why does this concern you?
Hi there,
yes I have some old sony vaio and 12 years old macbook unibody in my basemement. The vaio is running windows 10 and the macbook is also usable. What limitations? Netgear didnt manage to update its software to smb2 or smb3 for 10 years between 2007 and 2017. What limitation is the x86 architecture in this case?
Kochev wrote:
Sorry. I had to write an update. I have successfully restored the firmware.
And yes, I have tried to update the firmware to version 6 because I did had the chance to find inforation that the this version is not supported on the NVX.
I'm glad you got it up again. You could have bricked it altogether. OS-6 requires a 64 bit architecture.
As far as support goes, Netgear stopped shipping 4.2.x ReadyNAS in 2013. Firmware updates after that were limited to bug fixes and security updates - there weren't any major feature updates.
You can of course turn on SMB-1 on the Windows machines. NFS is another option (at least for some versions of Windows 10).
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