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Newbie - ReadyNas Ultra 4 Boot Problems - case #21158089
Hi all. I took delivery of a readynas4 ultra today, from a friend where I know it was working.
I've spent a good number of hours today trying to get this thing working with little to no luck. Here's a rundown:
1) Plugged in, powered on. Screen sits at "Booting..." for ever and a day.
2) Moved drives around, still sits at "Booting...".
3) Raidar finds the device most of the time and will show it as 'booting'. I've left it in this state for up to 45 minutes to no avail.
4) Factory Reset - sits at "Testing Disks for ages" and Raidar shows the devices in status "Testing Disks" and the 4 green LED's are flashing under the drives in Raider. Prior to this, the screen on the NAS did show testing percentage right up to 100% then sat back at "Testing Disks..."
I'm at a complete loss... and I've been sitting with this on testing disks for the best part of an hour now.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!
Martin
I've spent a good number of hours today trying to get this thing working with little to no luck. Here's a rundown:
1) Plugged in, powered on. Screen sits at "Booting..." for ever and a day.
2) Moved drives around, still sits at "Booting...".
3) Raidar finds the device most of the time and will show it as 'booting'. I've left it in this state for up to 45 minutes to no avail.
4) Factory Reset - sits at "Testing Disks for ages" and Raidar shows the devices in status "Testing Disks" and the 4 green LED's are flashing under the drives in Raider. Prior to this, the screen on the NAS did show testing percentage right up to 100% then sat back at "Testing Disks..."
I'm at a complete loss... and I've been sitting with this on testing disks for the best part of an hour now.
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!
Martin
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- That's sorted it :)
Thank you very much for your help mdgm and siigna :) Perhaps these drives weren't needed afterall but considering they're no longer supported... probably worthwhile! - The real test to confirm if it's fixed would be if the next firmware update you do succeeds or if you get the issue you had before again.
- I guess we'll need to wait and see :)
On the up side, I managed to get it all working fine with the 2 new drives. Downside, I've added another 2 (of the greens) and one of them is being reported as dead. I guess I can just hotswap them while the unit is on, right? - Yes you can hotswap. It is best to add one disk at a time.
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