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rxmoss
Aspirant
Mar 19, 2023

ReadyNAS RN104 Dead Message

I have had no problems with my ReadyNAS RN104 for 7+ years in RAID 5, when a few days ago I got this message: "Disk in channel 4 (Internal) changed state from ONLINE to FAILED." I had been running wi...
ReadyNAS OS 6 on Legacy models
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Sandshark
Sensei
Mar 28, 2023

gdisk is not standard in the OS.  fdisk will show the partition type if you use it drive by drive (same as your commands for gdisk, just substituting fdisk).  But since the other partitions are from a cloning process, I suspect they are right.  The inability to set the partition type is undoubtedly just fallout because the partition creation failed and the OS ignores that and tries to set the partition type anyway.

 

I'm not familiar with partition tables enough to know if there is there something in a cloned partition table that makes you unable to expand beyond the size of the cloned drive.  But that would make some sense since it's affecting more than one drive.

rxmoss's avatar
rxmoss
Aspirant
Mar 28, 2023

I sent over the gpart output to both Sandshark and StephenB. Having trouble posting the code publicly. Thank you both!

 

 

  • Sandshark's avatar
    Sandshark
    Sensei
    Mar 28, 2023
    root@NAS-4DR:~# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 11721045168 sectors, 5.5 TiB
Model: WDC WD62PURZ-85B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): ADAF7F6E-958D-4AC6-96D1-7A50E451A1FF
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 11721045134
Partitions will be aligned on 64-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3907012093 sectors (1.8 TiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              64         8388671   4.0 GiB     FD00  
   2         8388672         9437247   512.0 MiB   FD00  
   3         9437248      7814033071   3.6 TiB     FD00

    I'm thinking the "protective MBR" is the issue and needs to be expanded.  But I have no idea if that can even be done, much less how to do it.

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