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Netgear NV+ Booting for 36 hours
Hi I have a 2009 ReadyNAS RND4000 NV+ which suddenly has hung itself on booting Initially it would not show anything in the LCD and I had to phjysically unplug the power supply to get it to resta...
Guys {elation},
I waited over 30 hours but the NAS just sat there with the LCD displaying booting so then I gave in and pulled the Drive in Bay 1. I repowered and it went through the same boot routine but then jumped into check FS and was at 5 % in just a few minutes. This morning when I came down the NAS had booted completely and advised me I was missing a drive which I have promptly replaced :smileyvery-happy:
RAIDar is showing me status and firmware (4.1.14)
Resynch is 5% advanced with a finish time in about 8 hours
Thank you all for the comments...they pointed the way and gave me the confidence to be patient.
It helped that nothing critical on the NAS had not been backed up so I wasnt stressing about loss ...but looking through the files I am glad I have them all back.
Thank you once again
Hello TeMorituriNZ,
You can try Skip Volume Check from the boot menu then once it allows you to access the FrontView, download the logs and check reallocated sector count and ATA errors. If you will be able to access the files. back up asap.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Thanks...I decided to try the "skip volume check" option. The NAS would not soft power off so once again it was a hard power off event.
The system rebooted and can be detected by RAIDar which says :"system starting up" and it shows the 4 2Tb drives as "sleeping"
I am currently at 12 hours of "Booting..." on the LCD display. 4 green drive lights and a slowly pulsing blue power light ( sometimes it stays on or off for about 30seconds as well) .The activity light flickers green about every 22 to 30 seconds
I plan to give it 24 hours again before taking stock
Most files on it are backed up and there is nothing critical which cannot be replaced stored on it...but I would still prefer to retrieve the data than do a reformat
Hi TeMorituriNZ,
Give it a little more time to complete the booting process. If this won't complete in the next several hours, download the latest RAIDar utility and try to download the system device logs? Lastly, can you confirm if you have executed properly the Skip Volume Check procedure?
Looking forward to your response.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamHi Brian,
Thanks ..I will definitely give it at least 24 hours before looking at the situation again
RAIDar 6.1 is showing that it can detect the device but that is all. It will not permit other options like admin page or download logs . It wont even show the firmware
Is there another utility?
The skip volume check I used seemed to proceed without difficulty and it was definitely different from the "check FS" that popped up on the original boot :
To perform a skip volume check, tech support mode, memory test, TFTP boot, or USB boot:
- Power off your system.
- Press and hold the Power button until all Disk LEDs flash the correct number of times, and then release the button. Check the table below for reference.
Systems with an LCD (NV+ v1) will also display the boot menu item text on the LCD at each stage.
Boot Menu ModeAction to selectSkip volume check Press the Power button and continue to press it for 5 seconds; release after all Disk LEDs flash 1 time.
The feature to download the logs using RAIDar is just for OS6 NAS units running recent firmware releases.
It could be hanging on a bad disk.
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