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readynas 600 won't boot slow flashing blue light
I connected to the NAS both through the web interface to check the backup jobs. They seem to have been failing for several months with unknown error. I could see the files via CIFS. As I looked th...
That would be a Rev A
Revision A has drives which load from the front of the unit, and connect to the system via SATA cables. It also uses a Compact Flash card to store the firmware.
Revision B loads drives from the top (often called 600-TL). The drives directly connect to the system board. This model also has no Compact Flash card, and instead stores the firmware directly on the system board via NAND Flash.
Do you see any of these LED patterns?
You can use SeaTools to test SeaGate disks or WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for WD disks.
It's important not to get the PC to make changes to the disks. The PC may want to format them, but don't let it.
I already referred to the LED patterns when testing the memory, which resulted in 4 green lights after a while. Under normal boot the ultimate result is no disk lights on, and a slow flashing blue power light.
I certainly know not to format the disks in windows, my question was is it safe to merely connect the disks to a machine running windows to run the manufacturer diagnostics under windows. As I mentioned, merely connecting a tivo disk to a windows machine will trash the disk. No formatting required. I just want to make sure that isn't the case with readynas disks. Windows apparently loves to overwrite the master boot record when a disk is connected. I want to verify that isn't a problem with the readynas disks.
Thanks.
GRS1 wrote:
my question was is it safe to merely connect the disks to a machine running windows to run the manufacturer diagnostics under windows.
Yes. Windows won't recognize the format, so it will not attempt to mount them. You will see them show up in the windows disk manager, and the vendor diagnostic should detect them.
As long as you don't format or modify partitions you will be ok.
OK, all drives have been tested, 3 Hitachi and one WD, Hitachi now a WD sub. I tested the Hitachi drives using the legacy HGST application, as well as the WD Drive lifeguard. All tests were run multiple times. HGST includes an extended smart test as well as a surface scan. I did both, multiple times. I tested all the drives with WD lifeguard multiple times. No errors anywhere.
I put the drives back in and rebooted the NAS, and left it for a couple of days. The blue light continues to slow flash, and periodically over the 2 days the drive access lights flash like everything is normal. There is no distinguishable pattern. They don't always flash all at once, sometimes one or two, but perhaps every 10 minutes it looks like something is being accessed.
Raidar continues to show file system check 100%, but no access to SMB or HTTP. I can ping the unit.
The ethernet led flashes periodically, seemingly indicating traffic. Probably Raidar?
What to try next?
Was the last post missed, or is the silence an indication of a boat anchor? I can thiink of some things to try, but would rather go with the guidance of someone who better understands the architecture.
It looks like the backup drive is bad. I have another, but its rather old. I would certainly prefer to recover from the nas.
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