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ReadyNAS 3200 RN12P Firmware / BIOS Reinstallation
Hello All - Just trying to get some confirmation or comments on the approach I intend to use on an upcoming project. I recently aquired (hasn't even shown up yet) a ReadyNAS 3200 with 12 2TB driv...
This unit is running great now thanks to the assistance received from mdgm. Being who I am, I installed a disk and rebooted and the unit went into 6.8.0 with no problem. Then I just had to perform a factory reset from RAIDar after which I then performed an OS update using the 6.8.0 img file just to make sure "all the electrons were properly aligned". I'm very pleased.
Just to clarify if anyone chooses this thread as a guide for their effort - nothing I proposed to do in my initial post or tried on my end contributed to this success other than the choosing of a good quality USB drive ... and it's a pretty helpless feeling. It was only through some one-on-one TLC from the moderator that this unit is now functioning. Kudos to them for all they do for us ... theirs is a selfless effort!
Hopefully your system boots fine now on 6.8.0. If you're putting a used disk from your PC in the NAS will need to wipe it. If you put a disk from another system running OS6 it should be able to boot off that.
It looks like you may have been trying to do USB Boot Recovery with the recovery files on the internal USB.
USB Boot Recovery is designed to have the recovery files placed on an external USB which then flashes the internal USB.
This unit is running great now thanks to the assistance received from mdgm. Being who I am, I installed a disk and rebooted and the unit went into 6.8.0 with no problem. Then I just had to perform a factory reset from RAIDar after which I then performed an OS update using the 6.8.0 img file just to make sure "all the electrons were properly aligned". I'm very pleased.
Just to clarify if anyone chooses this thread as a guide for their effort - nothing I proposed to do in my initial post or tried on my end contributed to this success other than the choosing of a good quality USB drive ... and it's a pretty helpless feeling. It was only through some one-on-one TLC from the moderator that this unit is now functioning. Kudos to them for all they do for us ... theirs is a selfless effort!
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