How Much Time to Format?

Question

I have an RN102 (6.2.3) that I have removed the old 1TB discs and replaced with two identical 3TB WD reds. The 3TB discs were tested on a PC, then volumes deleted prior to installing in the RN102. I went into boot menu and selected factory default. It took a few minutes for the 102 to settle down. Now it displays a solid power, disk1, disk2 lights, with ACT flickering randomly. It's been like that overnight.

When I use Raidar the device shows up as ready with two good drives. When I try to enter setup via the web ui it times out with a message that the device is busy. Is it busy formatting the drives? If so how long should that take?

NASklr · Answer

To answer my question, it took all day for the activity light to quit flashing. let's say 12-24 hours for new disks to get configured.

For some odd reason I can no longer access the web ui through Raidar, because it uses my default browser, Firefox. Before I installed the new discs Firefox could access the web ui. Now it times out. IE11 still works.

StephenB · Answer

Firefox works fine with 6.2.5. &nbsp;It seems odd that 6.2.3 would fail.

mdgm-ntgr · Answer

There can be web browser compatibility issues introduced by a web browser update. A firmware update is needed in such cases to resolve it. Not sure if this is one of those.

NASklr · Answer

Something to do with certificates. I went into Firefox settings and deleted old certs for my ReadyNAS, then told Firefox to trust it when I attempted to connect to the UI. That fixed it. (Raidar was trying to connect by IP. If I substituted the host name it connected fine.)Restoring to factory defaults when I changed drives confused Firefox somehow.It also confused me. I thought I couldn't connect to the UI while the drives were syncing because the NAS was busy. Apparently it was a certificate issue.

StephenB · Answer

With Firefox, you can simply create a security exception for the NAS, &nbsp;there is no need to install the certs.
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The factory default of course will recreate new certs on the NAS. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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