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bwcloud's avatar
bwcloud
Guide
May 08, 2016
Solved

Blinking power light

Hello everyone. This is my first post on here. I've had this ReadyNAS since November 2014 with no problems, but yesterday after I saw the email for needing to migrate the readycloud service to mynetgear, I logged in to the web admin and updated the firmware on the 102 to the 6.4.1 firmware and when it rebooted, I couldn't access my volumes. I tried to do a USB recovery (I'm running OS X, so I can't run the recovery tool) and that seemed to work after I loaded onto a second USB drive (the first one wouldn't work). However, after I started the 102 back up, the power light just started blinking...and blinking...and blinking. Then, I tried to do the OS reload, but the buttons are completely non-responive. Double clicking the power button won't shutdown the NAS. Pulling the plug from the NAS and holding the reset button doesn't allow me to cycle through the setting either. Once the 102 starts up, all the lights light up, and the power button starts blinking again and releasing the reset and pushing the backup button, like the intructions for doing an OS reload say, don't let me cycle through the different boot menu options. Oddly enough, yesterday and early this morning, I was able to at least SEE the NAS in RAIDar and even the firmware version in the readycloud web dashboard, but this evening I can't even do that. At one point, it was even allowing me to mount the SMB shares on my desktop, but with no visible data, of course. Now, it won't allow me to do that either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

  • This could relate to some old apps that were installed on the system. I had to manually force apt to do some updates. I also removed a package or two. I also installed the latest version of avplus on the system.

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Which firmware did you update from?

    How long did you wait for it to boot? If updating from pre-6.4.x firmware the initial boot can take quite some time as the quotas are calculated especially if you have a lot of snapshots.

    • bwcloud's avatar
      bwcloud
      Guide

      The firmware was 6.2.x  or something like that, IIRC.

      • bwcloud's avatar
        bwcloud
        Guide

        Let me also add that, the light has been blinking like this for nearly a day and a half now.

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