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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 mynetg...
Booting
Installation & Upgrade
Using with Mac OSX
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    May 30, 2016

    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
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 09, 2016

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
    May 09, 2016

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

    • bwcloud's avatar
      bwcloud
      Guide
      May 09, 2016

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

      • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
        mdgm-ntgr
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        May 09, 2016

        Can you boot the NAS into volume read-only mode (a boot menu option) and send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig)?

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