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Raid 5 disks have become inactive
Hi I own a ReadyNas 104. And I was recently stupid enough to pull both disks at once. Upon reinserting them, I now get errors. "Please remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2. They show ...
No, quite the contrary. An OS4 ReadyNAS would have wiped your disks. OS6 added some safeguards to prevent that.
3xil3 wrote: I was under the assumption that inserting disks was ok when the nas was on?
The NAS assumes that you were replacing disks, not reinserting the same ones - so it wants to rebuild the array. If you make this mistake again, power down and then reinsert the drives (in the original slots is best).
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