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ReadyNAS 102 – Blue light blinking, no boot
My ReadyNAS 102 has been working with an issue for a few years. I tried to connect recently and it wouldn't let me. I tried to reboot and it wouldn't so I pulled the power. Now it won't boot up (blue...
Hello FreshIdentity,
Booting the NAS with no disks will really not boot up the NAS completely and will give you blinking power light. The OS/firmware, settings and data are stored to the disks.
Perhaps you want to check if RAIDar will detect your NAS with the disks in. By the way, when inserting the disks back to the NAS, please make sure you insert them back to their respective bays.
When RAIDar detects the NAS, it will show the current firmware, the current status and RAID level.
If the RAID level is XRAID (RAID1), try inserting just one disk to the NAS and see if it will boot up and let you access the files. If you get the same problem, try the other disk.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Hello FreshIdentity,
Booting the NAS with no disks will really not boot up the NAS completely and will give you blinking power light. The OS/firmware, settings and data are stored to the disks.
Perhaps you want to check if RAIDar will detect your NAS with the disks in. By the way, when inserting the disks back to the NAS, please make sure you insert them back to their respective bays.
When RAIDar detects the NAS, it will show the current firmware, the current status and RAID level.
If the RAID level is XRAID (RAID1), try inserting just one disk to the NAS and see if it will boot up and let you access the files. If you get the same problem, try the other disk.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
JennC wrote:If the RAID level is XRAID (RAID1), try inserting just one disk to the NAS and see if it will boot up and let you access the files. If you get the same problem, try the other disk.
I don't want to be annoying but this isn't a valid troubleshooting step. If the data volume is RAID0 or JBOD, you may damage it.
Hi
Thanks for the response. I used RAIDar and the drive showd up intermittently. I then got a series of e-mail Alert Messages with these errors then it said system shutting down:
Detected high uncorrectable error count: [7136] on disk 1 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F4EDFW]. This condition often indicates an impending failure. Be prepared to replace this disk to maintain data redundancy.
Detected increasing reallocated sector count: [7368] on disk 1 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166 Z1F4EDFW] 57 times in the past 30 days. This condition often indicates an impending failure. Be prepared to replace this disk to maintain data redundancy.
Detected increasing pending sector: count [7728] on disk 1 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F4EDFW] 51 times in the past 30 days. This condition often indicates an impending failure. Be prepared to replace this disk to maintain data redundancy.
I presume there's an error on Disk 1. Should I remove it and try to reboot off the duplicate disk? (I have two 3TB drives setup with RAID 1)
Now that we know one disk is dead/dying, you can proceed.
If you're 100% sure to have a RAID1 and have one dead disk, then yes, reboot with only the other disk.
If you're in RAID0 or single JBOD and one disk is failed, then your data is gone anyway (though you might be able to clone the disk).
Okay, so I pulled drive 1 and now I have access again to the drive. But the system says Drive 2 is degraded – what's the possibility of both drives failing at the same time?
Anyway I'll get a replacement for the pulled drive, I presume there's a procedure for replacing drive 1 now seeing as i'm effectively running off the back-up drive (drive 2)?
Really appreciate the help here.
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