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fdebiasio
Mar 30, 2016Aspirant
ReadyNAS 516 self power on configuration
Hello, Yesterday I manually switched off the ReadyNAS: a maintenance work to the electric power was planned in the afternoon. My plan was to switch it on this morning, but the readynas was up and ru...
- Mar 30, 2016
Last state is the setting for ARM units, so the 516 wasn't affected by the bug that was fixed in 6.5.0 Beta 2.
x86_64 units such as the 516 are set to POWER ON after a power failure. There isn't a way to override this except for the way StephenB mentioned.
StephenB
Mar 30, 2016Guru - Experienced User
JennC wrote:
I believe none.
That's true, but there is a workaround. If the NAS is connected to and monitoring a UPS, then it will shut itself down when it receives a power-critical message from the UPS. It will then stay shut down when power is restored.
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 30, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Last state is the setting for ARM units, so the 516 wasn't affected by the bug that was fixed in 6.5.0 Beta 2.
x86_64 units such as the 516 are set to POWER ON after a power failure. There isn't a way to override this except for the way StephenB mentioned.
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