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ReadyNas 104 reset itself and no volumes
I have an old ReadyNas 104 and seldom use it and mostly leave it off. It tends to turn itself on occasionally and I'll usually turn if off with a few presses of the power button. I will occasionally ...
In case anyone runs across this, the one mirrored drive completely died. Not sure why the device couldn't handle the boot as-is, but once determined the bad drive, and put the single good back in, it came back to life. I know this thing is old, and am glad data is effectively in tact...but the whole point of this kind of device is to boot up, let you know one of the drives is gonezo, and you can continue to access data while you replace the bad drive. 🤷‍♂️
PS firmware is 6.10.8 and prompts for update to 6.10.10 but gives a message after file download of Cannot open file - Retry/Close.
In case anyone runs across this, the one mirrored drive completely died. Not sure why the device couldn't handle the boot as-is, but once determined the bad drive, and put the single good back in, it came back to life. I know this thing is old, and am glad data is effectively in tact...but the whole point of this kind of device is to boot up, let you know one of the drives is gonezo, and you can continue to access data while you replace the bad drive. 🤷‍♂️
thejtluv wrote:
but the whole point of this kind of device is to boot up, let you know one of the drives is gonezo, and you can continue to access data while you replace the bad drive.
You are able to do that of course, once you removed the bad drive.
There are a couple of scenarios where a failed drive can result in a failure to boot. One is when the failed disk hangs the SATA bus.
Also, the system will ordinarily boot from disk 1. If disk 1 is not detected at all, then it will proceed to boot from disk 2. If disk 1 is detected and appears bootable - but has read errors - the boot can fail.
Note if you aren't sure if a failed disk is preventing the boot, the right procedure is to remove disk 1 and then boot the system read-only. If that doesn't help, power down and reinsert the disk, and proceed to disk 2. Read-only prevents the RAID groups from going out-of-sync.
Any recommendation if existing remaining disk is 3TB and have access to add a second 2TB? Thought I saw somewhere it may need to be same or bigger to auto handle, vs having to copy data out and start over with the 2TB as the main. Not worried about losing the 1TB if it would "just work" by adding it. Thanks!
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