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RaidAR Cannot find ReadyNAS Duo v2
Hi, Have a ReadyNAS Duo v2 that is no longer accessible thru Windows Explorer. Searching for it using RaidAR comes up blank and I can't ping it either. I have tried rebooting system (LED lights ...
Turns out the problem was a bad hard drive. Talking with NetGear tech support, these are the steps we did to be able to access the ReadyNAS again (this was done on a v1 device).
1) Removed both hard drives to see if ReadyNAS could be seen on network
2) Since this unit was configured as a RAID 1 (mirrored hard-drives) booted with only one hard drive installed. Started with drive one (which also happened to be the bad hard drive) and then tried drive two.
3) Once I was able to boot with at least one hard drive installed, I was able to access the log files which showed an increasing number of bad sectors on the failing hard drive.
Now all that is left is to get a new drive and let it resync.
Thanks to everyone who helped!
Westley
1) Removed both hard drives to see if ReadyNAS could be seen on network
2) Since this unit was configured as a RAID 1 (mirrored hard-drives) booted with only one hard drive installed. Started with drive one (which also happened to be the bad hard drive) and then tried drive two.
3) Once I was able to boot with at least one hard drive installed, I was able to access the log files which showed an increasing number of bad sectors on the failing hard drive.
Now all that is left is to get a new drive and let it resync.
Thanks to everyone who helped!
Westley
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