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jhyland's avatar
jhyland
Tutor
Oct 20, 2015

ReadyNAS becomes unresponsive - could it be tied to FW6.4 and backups?

I own a ReadyNAS 104.  I currently have four 3TB drives in it in X-Raid.  (5.86TB free of 8.17TB total).  I have a 5TB USB 3.0 drive plugged into the front USB Drive.  It is formatted as EXT4.  I am ...
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StephenB's avatar
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 24, 2015
Sgt_Torpedo wrote:

I have a RN104 with 2 3TB drives and it becomes unresponsive during a network backup to a Western Digital EX2 3TB NAS. It also is unresponsive during a backup operation from a Windows 10 Pro using the MS Windows 7 software.

 

 

There is one RAID stability fix in 6.4.2 beta - might be worth a try.

Sgt_Torpedo's avatar
Sgt_Torpedo
Aspirant
Dec 24, 2015

The bug fix list looks like it may adderss the issue, but I will wait until I dont need to downgrade the FW before I upgrade it. I am using FW 6.4.1 and just recovered from a major error when the unit lost the RAID volume.

 

Thanks

 

WARNINGS:

  • Devices updated with 6.4.2 BETA firmware cannot be downgraded to versions of the firmware earlier than 6.4.0.
  • ReadyNAS 102, 104, and 2120 must not be updated directly from 6.3.0 - 6.3.4 to 6.4.x.  They must first be updated to either 6.2.x or 6.3.5.
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 24, 2015
    Sgt_Torpedo wrote:

    The bug fix list looks like it may adderss the issue, but I will wait until I dont need to downgrade the FW before I upgrade it. I am using FW 6.4.1 and just recovered from a major error when the unit lost the RAID volume.

     

    Thanks

     

    WARNINGS:

    • Devices updated with 6.4.2 BETA firmware cannot be downgraded to versions of the firmware earlier than 6.4.0.
    • ReadyNAS 102, 104, and 2120 must not be updated directly from 6.3.0 - 6.3.4 to 6.4.x.  They must first be updated to either 6.2.x or 6.3.5.

    You must be misunderstanding the warnings.  You can directly install 6.4.2 beta on a 6.4.1 system (I did it myself yesterday).

     

    If you want to switch back to 6.4.1, you can easily downgrade - just manually install 6.4.1 from the web ui.

     

    • Sgt_Torpedo's avatar
      Sgt_Torpedo
      Aspirant
      Dec 24, 2015

      I will give it a try later tonight or tomorrow.

       

      Thanks

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