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No sync when inserting replacement drive in ReadyNAS 212 (Fw 6.10.10)
Hi, After many years Drive 2 on my ReadyNAS Duo was starting to fail. So I hot swapped the drive, but it won't sync to the replacement drive. I have tried attaching the replacement drive to my mac v...
To fix the issue of formatting a drive with a "foreign" OS, I needed to 'Destroy" the drives that appeared, then remove and re-insert the drive. Now it is re-syncing.
Looks like the same issue as reported here:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/ReadyNAS-RN214-will-not-resynch-new-disk/m-p/2307616#M51120
There is a comment stating:
"Did you format it via the NAS GUI? If the drive is formatted with a "foreign" OS, the NAS won't add it for fear it's overwriting data you need. "
I did format it with a "foreign" OS. Is there anything I can do now?
To fix the issue of formatting a drive with a "foreign" OS, I needed to 'Destroy" the drives that appeared, then remove and re-insert the drive. Now it is re-syncing.
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