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Aspirant

Oct 07, 2015

Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

I do not recall the orange blinking led yet on my ReadyNas 104 with the previous firmware. I swapped the cable with the 204 (previous firmware) but it stays orange blinking while the 204 shows gr...

Installation & Upgrade

obaeyens

Aspirant

Oct 08, 2015

The switch at Netgear GS108 has 2 green LED's, but the 104 has this left amber right green.

The interesting thing is that on the 104 the blinking led is on the left (which is amber) while on the 204 the blinking is on the right. (seen from behind).

Now that I notice the NAS network adapter web page has Eth0 on the left side for the 104, while the 204 has the eth0 on the right side. So the upper connector is upside down compared between them.

Someone flipped a bit ;-)

obaeyens

Aspirant

Oct 08, 2015

Sorry worded incorrectly.

The NAS network web page is left eth0, right eth1

But when I connect to the upper connector on both the 104 and 204, then the upper is eth1 on the 204 and eth0 on the 104.

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 08, 2015
Is this a GS108T? If so, its web page will tell you the negotiated speed (and give you packet statistics for the port)

Also - did you try rebooting the switch?
- obaeyens
  Aspirant
  Oct 08, 2015
  Just a 108GS
  
  I tried everything (swape cables, reboot the switch, the NAS, other network connector....) but before the firmware upgrade the NAS 104 showed 2 green leds one blinking. Now the blinking one is amber.
  
  The switch shows 2 green leds which suggest me that it is a wrong bit set to the 104 NAS and incorrectly shows an orange LED instead of a green.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 09, 2015
    obaeyens wrote:
    
    The switch shows 2 green leds which suggest me that it is a wrong bit set to the 104 NAS and incorrectly shows an orange LED instead of a green.
    
    If you are saying the leds are simply wrong, then you could well be right.
    
    One way to check is to test the NAS read/write speeds. You could use nastester for that http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance. RN104 read speed is normally ~70MB/s and write is ~50 MB/s - over gigabit ethernet.