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Readynas Disappeared from network
Hi All, I set up my readynas in 2018 and it's been working fine since. Today I tried to access my files, and it wouldn't load. I tried to go to the IP address and it says not found. I checked my...
Since RAIDar found it diskless, then something has happened to the disks.
You can try booting up in read-only mode from the boot menu without disk 1 (but with the others), and see if that works.
If it does: the volume will be degraded (meaning no RAID redundancy). Offload your data before proceeding further, since it is at risk.
If it doesn't work: you can power down the NAS, and try again without disk 2 (but with disk 1). Similarly with disk 3 and disk 4.
I'm on my phone and there's no edit button that I see. Please excuse the double post. The IP address did change. I'm plugged in a different port on the back of the NAS and everything too though.
Since RAIDar found it diskless, then something has happened to the disks.
You can try booting up in read-only mode from the boot menu without disk 1 (but with the others), and see if that works.
If it does: the volume will be degraded (meaning no RAID redundancy). Offload your data before proceeding further, since it is at risk.
If it doesn't work: you can power down the NAS, and try again without disk 2 (but with disk 1). Similarly with disk 3 and disk 4.
Hi Stephen,
So I pulled out Disk 1, and it booted on disk 2. My usual password worked, interface worked, etc.It automatically updated the firmware according to the logs. I powered down, put drive 1 in, and we are copying the data now. It's iffy, but it looks as if the data is copying. The speeds are jumping all over and it's taking a long time, but it looks to be working.
If I can get the data off, I will be excited! After that, I don't know if it was just a bad update, or a bad drive...
Again, thank you for your guidance thus far!
KILO_6 wrote:
After that, I don't know if it was just a bad update, or a bad drive...
The OS partition that the NAS boots from is RAID-1 (mirrored on all drives in the system). Normally the boot loader will boot from the first bootable disk it finds in the system - it doesn't fail over to the another drive if that disk fails to boot, and it doesn't take advantage of the RAID redundancy.
If the system fails to boot with disk 1 installed, but boots without it, then that generally points to a bad drive, and not a failed update. In that situation, I'd personally look at the log zip fip file for errors, and would also test the drive in a PC with vendor tools before reinstalling the drive.
Putting back in the original Drive 1 was probably not your best move, since it likely has errors and new problems could have arisen during the re-sync, but I'm glad it worked out for you.
I was able to recover the data and opted to just replace the drive. I put a new drive in it's place, and the NAS is functioning properly.
Very strange, I will copy my data onto the new drive and carry on. Some type of HDD failure/corruption.
THANK YOU for your guidance!!!!
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