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(not) Booting after disk failure
I have a ReadyNAS Pro Business that had a disk failure last week (disk 1). I replaced the disk today with the unit powered off. It came back up, but FrontView still reported a Seagate disk in bay 1 ...
Well, we haven't heard a response on our ticket for 5 days now, so I'm turning here to see if we can get some progress. The last thing we were told was:
This sounded like a pretty specific procedure but since our RAID only has 3 disks, I asked for clarification on the procedure for a 3-disk system. The case #19985185.
It's not clear where he's headed in this line of debugging. He seems to think that more than one disk is bad, but that seems pretty unlikely. There were clear indications of a single disk failure leading up to the time when I replaced the disk with a new one. Now with the replacement, the thing won't boot.
This is what I would like for you to try.
Take the ReadyNAS with no drives in it and boot it in to tech support mode. If this comes up then turn it off and seat disc 1 2 and 3. Boot it normally now. When that has done booting. Turn of the device. Reseat Disc 4. And do a normal boot.
This sounded like a pretty specific procedure but since our RAID only has 3 disks, I asked for clarification on the procedure for a 3-disk system. The case #19985185.
It's not clear where he's headed in this line of debugging. He seems to think that more than one disk is bad, but that seems pretty unlikely. There were clear indications of a single disk failure leading up to the time when I replaced the disk with a new one. Now with the replacement, the thing won't boot.
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