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NV+ is dying have one failed disk need to upgrade now
This weekend I discovered my readynas had bit the dust with one of my disk showing as bad. I replaced the disk and again it said it was bad so I took the old disk and plugged it into my machine with a SATA to USB adapter and fried my keyboard. From here I setup a controlled environment and discovered there was a short in the controller on the hard drive which probably caused a failure on the SATA port on the ReadyNAS because the new drive is fine. So Now I'm stuck with 3 disks which I'm sure if I just took the spare set it up in a new machine updated the firmware removed put the old disks in booted then installed the third disk i would be backup in no time.
However, I would like to update to the Ultra 6+. Has netgear gotten around to allowing dropping spare drives in the x86 box yet possible with tftp boot then update the drives? From what I've been able to put together there isn't a reason this can't be done but does require some configuration management glue to detect this scenario and handle updating the boot drives and config files appropriately.
However, I would like to update to the Ultra 6+. Has netgear gotten around to allowing dropping spare drives in the x86 box yet possible with tftp boot then update the drives? From what I've been able to put together there isn't a reason this can't be done but does require some configuration management glue to detect this scenario and handle updating the boot drives and config files appropriately.
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- Even more fun I found a cap on the backplane that had come off soldered it back. I put everything back together and booted and was able to see it in raidar and thought I was good to pull the remaining data off in an upgrade. I was wrong however, upon further examination it was showing 1gb/1gb free. I checked into it an all my files were missing. I enabled ssh and checked the partition maps of the drives. Drive 2 showed no partition map. I thought I would be clever and take the controller from drive two and put it on the failed drive 3 and try again it wasn't working so I tried it via a data->usb connector and the drive is unresponsive. So I put everything together and verified partition maps on drive 1 and 4 are fine. Can I load up drive 4 in fdisk, pull the drive replace it with drive 2 and write the partition map to drive 2? If so will it maintain the uid for lvm?
- So given he crickets I guess I will DD drive 2 to my new spare. Then I will try running fdisk on drive 4, remove the drive and add the spare. Then try writing the partition information to the drive. Then I can try and mount them read only and see what happens.
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