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armornone
Jan 13, 2013Aspirant
ATA errors at 42, should I return hard drive?
Hello. 3 out of 4 of my hard drives have ATA errors at 46. I am wondering if I should return the hard drives or just watch with caution? What exactly is an ATA error and is it like reallocated...
armornone
Jan 15, 2013Aspirant
mdgm wrote: Most likely the ATA errors were caused by the compatibility issue.
What model ReadyNAS is this?
How long ago did you buy these drives?
When I log into frontview web admin screen, it said that its a " ReadyNAS X6" however in the RAIDiator software, it comes up as "readynas 600"
May I ask what exactly do you see in the log files to indicate there is a compatible issue with the hard drives? I know that one of the drives shows 0 ATA errors and the rest show 42. If there is a compatiable issue, would it effect all the drives. I think they are all the 2TB WD green drive.
I purchased the entire system used so I can't say for certain how old the drives are but I did check one of them out and it has about 8 months left on its warranty.
When I did purchase the system, I noticed that it was not working properly. When I signed into the system, it said something like " 0MB available on 0MB drive" which was really strange. I did a factory reset and the entire thing broke.
The only way I could get it working was to load a very old version of the firmware 2.00c1-p5 into the compact flash card then update to 4.1.6 then do a factory reset( it worked here) then I would update to version 4.1.8.
If I ever updated the firmware to 4.1.8 or 4.1.10 and did a factory reset, it would break and I would have to eventually load the older version of the firmware( 2.00c1-p5)
Please tell me what you are thinking?
Thanks.
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