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Duo will not boot; hard drives work in Windows only
I had a ReadyNAS Duo that was unable to boot--it was stuck on the blinking blue light, and it sounded like the drives were clicking and attempting to boot up but could not boot fully. I tried perform...
StephenB wrote: Based on the symptoms, it sounds like a failing drive.
Try seatools on the PC, and and see if the drives pass. While there, take a look at the SMART stats.
Also, you could look at the RAIDar status with the 1 TB drive in the NAS.
Do I have to attach the drive internally (via SATA) to run Seatools, or can I run it via USB?
Regarding the SMART stats, I know that one of the disks had a reallocated sector count around 50--I received an email alert a few years ago--but it hasn't gone up since then.
The RAIDar does not detect the NAS when either of the 1 TB drives is in.
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