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NV+ disk swap failure
I was running out of room, was going to upgrade from 500MB to 2TB drives. Using WD RED, so compatible. Pulled the first disk and put in the new one. Ran through initialization, started sync, got to "Resync 68% completed, Time to finish 50 min". Dropped connection to Frontview, can't attach to it on network, RAIDar still detects it but won't reconnect to it.
At this point, I'd like to just get it back up. Have the old disk that I pulled out - can I put it back in? Or can I just pull out the new disk? Try to reboot?
Unit light and new drive light are both fast flashing. Left it overnight just in case it needed more time, but didn't change. Using X-Raid. Help?
UPDATE: now RAIDar can't find the unit, and the lights are still flashing on the front of the box. Could it really take more than 30 hours to finish a sync? Do I just let it go or try to intervene?
At this point, I'd like to just get it back up. Have the old disk that I pulled out - can I put it back in? Or can I just pull out the new disk? Try to reboot?
Unit light and new drive light are both fast flashing. Left it overnight just in case it needed more time, but didn't change. Using X-Raid. Help?
UPDATE: now RAIDar can't find the unit, and the lights are still flashing on the front of the box. Could it really take more than 30 hours to finish a sync? Do I just let it go or try to intervene?
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- I think maybe the disk 2 is fautly. It caused the resyncing failed to finish.
It is better give us a remote access to box, then we can have a check for the disk 2.
You also can try normal boot only with the disk 1 which you pulled before. Maybe the unit can boot up only with the disk 1. Then you can hot-plug new disk in box again. - I pulled the new disk and rebooted the NV+. It performed an FS check and came up - of course with the warning that it's now unprotected and a disk failure will be catastrophic. I've done a full backup and am going to now try loading the new disks and doing a factory reset. Thanks for the suggestion.
- What version of RAIDiator is on your unit. If it is not already 4.1.7 or later you will want to do another factory default after updating the firmware.
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