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10 yr old RN-NV stopped working after power loss. What are options to get XRAID drives working again
Hey everyone! I actually bought my REadyNAS NV in october of 2006. There was the PSU fiasco after a year, but after replacing the PSU, it has been chugging along ever since. The only other hting I...
XRAID is layered on top of standard RAID modes. You can access your data from an x86 linux system: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
The RN104 isn't compatible with your disks (the CPU is different, and the data volume disk is formatted differently). However, Netgear support can help if you are migrating your NV+ data to a new OS6 platform. There is more information here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29876
XRAID is layered on top of standard RAID modes. You can access your data from an x86 linux system: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
The RN104 isn't compatible with your disks (the CPU is different, and the data volume disk is formatted differently). However, Netgear support can help if you are migrating your NV+ data to a new OS6 platform. There is more information here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29876
Quick question. If I access my data via linux, it doesn't talk about how to setup the drives physically? I'm assuming x-raid is just raid 5? Do I need to plug the drives in order and then do I need to do anything in linux such as software raid 5 before trying to mount the drives?
I don't think the order matters.
Technically the NV V1 xraid uses RAID-4 (because it has a dedicated parity disk) but we usually call it RAID-5 here (and flexraid for the v1 also calls it RAID-5 in the admin ui and the manual).
Hi Stephen,
I appreciate your help in this. I have found an old NV+. Assuming it is the same that I had, can I just pop the drives back in? Is the metadata on the drives? Thanks!
All the data is on the drives, and the operating system is on the drives too.
The only caveat is that if the NAS firmware on the replacement doesn't match the firmware installed on the disks, then the NAS will attempt to reinstall the firmware to the disks. If the firmware on the replacement is very old, that reinstall might fail. The way to avoid this problem is to install a scratch disk (not part of the array) first, and then install the firmware you want on the NAS. Then power down, remove the scratch disk, and install your original disks.
If you aren't sure what firmware was on the failed NAS, just install the current production firmware on the new one (4.1.14).
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