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ReadyNas 2120v2 No Longer Network Accessible
I'm in the process of taking our ReadyNas 2120v2 out of service due to age. Yesterday, I was moving data off the unit when network accessibility was abruptly lost.. I lost assess to the SMB shares ...
When you say "none of this worked", do you mean the NAS could not initialize a new volume on a scratch drive? If you do, then you may have a hardware issue and moving the drives into another OS6-based ReadyNAS (including a legacy unit upgraded to OS6) may be the easiest recovery method. Unfortunately, the volume can also be damaged when hardware fails, so that's not a sure thing. And used ReadyNAS prices on eBay are pretty ridiculous right now, especially since you'll need caddies for anything except another native OS6 rack-mount unit.
It could still be a corrupt flash issue that can be fixed with a successful USB recovery. When you attempt to do that, do you even see the USB drive being accessed (if it has an LED that so indicates)?
No, it would not initialize on a scratch drive. I actually filled the sleds with some old identical Seagate HDDs I had laying around. No changes. And I couldn't get a USB recovery to take. Tried several times. To be honest, if this was a personal project with my own data, I might be willing to pick up an ebay unit to play with. But this is for work. And I doubt my employer will reimburse me for that. The data is annoying to loose, but it wasn't overly important. I keep multiple backups of different types for everything that really matters.
mtkoc wrote:
No, it would not initialize on a scratch drive. I actually filled the sleds with some old identical Seagate HDDs I had laying around.
Did you use the boot menu option to do a factory default?
If not, try erasing one with Seatools to remove any formatting and partitions. Then try powering up the NAS with just that one disk installed. The simple overwrite option is sufficient for this.
I wanted to post an update. It took me a few days, but I took dd images of the drives as a precaution. A buddy of mine happened to have a ReclaiMe license that he let me borrow.
I loaded the dd images into ReclaiMe and I was able to get the last 500Gb of data back that I needed. Worked surprisingly well.
I want to thank everyone for their help! At this point, I consider the hardware a lost cause. I was taking it out-of-service anyway, so off to electronics recycling.
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