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Jobarez
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Sep 13, 2016
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Readynas duo never gets ready

Trying to start up my (old) Readynas DUO but it will never get ready. When I starting the device the lamp is blinking, and will never stop. I have been waiting for more than 24 hours. I have also tried to do a OS backup (holding resetbuttom for 5 sek, waiting for the disklamps to flash) No action! 

I have also tried to to a full factory reset (holding reset buttom for ca 25 sek, wating for the disklaps flashing 2 times)

After that I also have waited more than 12 hours. 

What is wrong?

 

 


  • Jobarez wrote:

    Yes, that is working! I can find the nas with "no disks found"

     


    Great.  That suggests that the startup issue might be related to the disks.  

     

    So perhaps test the disks in a windows PC with vendor diags (lifeguard for wdc, seatools for seagate).  Or try starting the NAS with only one of the disks installed.

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User

    Are you seeing one of these LED patterns?

    LED blink behavior for 2 disk systems is three quick blinks of all disk LEDs and the backup LED, followed by a 1 second delay, followed by a number of slow blinks.  The number of slow blinks will be the error code.

    Current error codes:
    1 – Vendor mismatch
    2 – No disks detected
    3 – Bad contents on root partition of disks
    4 – Flash error
    5 – Unsupported RAID configuration

     

     Also try installing RAIDar on a PC - if the NAS is on the network it can report status.

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