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Adding Raid1 new drives
I have 5 or 6 ReadyNas+ units, most of them have been raid5 and started with 4 drives.
I do not want to use Xraid or anything proprietary.
I have a unit with 2 drives on a raid1, I wanted to add 2 more and configure as a new raid1 as drives are different capacity.
When I put the new drives in the unit refused to boot, just stuck on Booting and Raidar said "bad disks" no setup option offered.
Nothing wrong with the disks.
Is this normal behaviour for ReadyNas+
Should I pull the working drives and let the ReadyNas nuke the two new disks in Bay3 and Bay4, will it cope if I then add Bay1 and Bay2 back again.
Very disappointed that it does not recognise the disks and offer options
Sounds like the NAS is detecting those disks as used and has decided not to wipe them (some users don't realise that we need to wipe disks that are added.
From reading this article is this a v1 or a v2?: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/
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Sounds like the NAS is detecting those disks as used and has decided not to wipe them (some users don't realise that we need to wipe disks that are added.
From reading this article is this a v1 or a v2?: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how-to-tell-whether-i-have-a-duo-v1-or-duo-v2-or-nv-v1-or-nv-v2/-What ReadyNAS models and what firmware is running on them?
-Are the systems set up for flexraid or xraid?
-what model are the new disks? Were they formatted when you installed them?
How to proceed depends on those details. So don't pull the working drives.
FWIW-
you can set up dual raid-1 on the ReadyNAS
-XRAID isn't as proprietary as you might think. It is built on top of standard linux RAID tools, and the RAID array itself is completely standard. But it only supports one volume, and you want two - so it won't work for you.
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