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Getting ready to migrate from RAIDiator 4.1 to ReadyNAS OS 6.5
OK, I've setup all of the required components to do the migration. My question is, why do I need to contact support? Are you guys going to log me into some kind of engineering mode to enable someth...
Just to let you know, I ended up finding an old ReadyNas NV+ , popped my drives in, it came up wtih all my data, I copied the data over to a 4TB NAS sitting on my desktop comptuer and that's it. You can't connect the 4TB NAS to your ReadyNAS NV+ because it doesn't recoginzie USB drives over 2TB.
Hmmm....nowhere doesa it say they will definiteoy charge me. They make it sound like if you don't know what you are doing, then they will charge you.
I'm thinking two things need to be done, access some engineering mode to enable/unhide something and put the drive in read-only through the boot menu?
I see these options in the boot menu:
- Tech support. Boots into a low-level diagnostic mode. Use the tech support boot mode only when instructed to do so by a NETGEAR technical support representative.
- Volume read only. Mounts a volume as read-only. Use this option when you are attempting to rescue data off a disk during a disaster recovery.
I really wish I could jsut do this myself. Any idea why not?
After doing a lot of reading, it appears I need to mount the drives somehow. I haven't figured out how yet. It'd be nice if Netgear just posted the steps on how to mount the drives. I did log in as root, but the cli is limited and I can't seem to get the drives mounted. Hell, I can't even see them. Obvisouly I'm missing an important step.
Well it depends on a variety of factors e.g. which RAID mode you chose and how many disks, whether the disks are healthy, what the state of the array, volume, OS etc. are.
The shell commands that need to be entered do vary from case to case.The volume read-only boot menu option is not used for this. That option is to mount an OS6 volume read-only. This option obviously isn't applicable to your current situation.
Thanks for your reply. Looks like I'll be calling support soon.
Hi Helevitia,
Since you will be contacting our support team to start migrating your old volume to your new ReadyNAS, we encourage you to mark this thread closed by clicking the "Accepted as Solution” button in one of the responses that you received. We also look forward to hearing more from you and be a helpful resource in the future!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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