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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...
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.
Just tested
The Write 45 MB/s
The read 40 MB/s
However these are older recycled hard disks!!!!
The fact that I can read and write at this speed means that I at least have 100 Mbs and thus is the amber LED incorrect and should be green.
obaeyens wrote:
Just tested
The Write 45 MB/s
The read 40 MB/s
However these are older recycled hard disks!!!!
The fact that I can read and write at this speed means that I at least have 100 Mbs and thus is the amber LED incorrect and should be green.
You'd max out at 10-11 MB/s for 100 mbits. So you are getting gigabit.
I just upgraded the 204 to OS6.4.0 and here I correctly see the green LED.
Interesting is that the network card is upside down between the 104 and 204. The same for the network blinker led that is swapped from left to right (because the board is upside down I guess)
I also just notice that the 104 amber LED is mostly off and sometimes blnks on.
But the 204 green LED is mostly on and sometimes blinks off and is consistant with the Netgear switch LED's.
If I have a lucky guess then either you have a LSB-MSB situation, or an inverted byte. ;-)
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