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Migrate drives from ReadyNAS NVX to ReadyNAS 212
I've searched in this forum but I could not find a answer to my problem. The power supply to my old ReadyNAS NVX (4 bays) died, so I bought a new ReadyNAS 212 (2 Bays). I am left with the 2 driv...
The RN212 is ARM. The article states that you need an x86 model. See http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29957/~/readynas%3A-migrating-disks-from-raidiator-4.2-to-readynas-os-6-(x86)
The following are our x86 OS6 models:
RN312
RN314
RN316
RN516
RN716X
RN526X (just released)
RN626X (just released)
Thank you mdgm-ntgr .
I got that link from this other article: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29875/~/readynas%3A-migrating-disks-from-raidiator-to-os-6?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
but there I don't see a link to instructions to migrate drives from the NVX to the ARM OS 6 (RN212), unless I'm blind.
Or maybe that's not possible because of the difference between Intel (my legacy device) and ARM (my new device) ?
Can you please help?
Thanks!
For disks taken from a dead legacy x86 box you should go with a new x86 box. If we supported going legacy x86 to current ARM we would have mentioned that.
Hi, mdgm-ntgr, sorry to bother you again.
I got my ReadyNAS 312 unit. I updated the firmware and done a factory reset, then inserted the drive from my defunct NVX unit.
The 312 now starts but the blue power light keeps blinking undefinitely, and the machine is not accessible via web interface.
The RAIDar utility finds the 312 unit on the network, but it gives its status as "System starting up...".
The 312 responds fine to network pings (actually it works fine with a new hard drive, so I know it's working).
Am I out of luck with my data recovery? :(
Thanks,
-Gianluca.
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