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ReadyNAS Duo, pulsing blue light
Need to document something here, problem is solved, but wondering what might have happened.
Last night, I noticed a pulsing blue light. Since my server turns on and off every day, I didn't know for how long it was in this state. FrontView and file shares were not available in Windows explorer. I could hear the HDs spinning, as if there was some activity with the drives. There were no failure emails sent to me, and I could not access the logs. No recent upgrades, the unit has been working for a long time.
RAIDar did find my hardware, everything looked OK, 2 solid HD lights, in fact status was "Healthy". The only off thing that was really odd, the firmware version is showing as 4.1.1.4, which is not correct, I installed 4.1.1.5 a long time ago, not sure if this is relevant or not. My hardware has been sending me the following message for a couple months now, I have been ignoring it:
A newer version of the firmware for your ReadyNAS device is now available. To install it, please go to the System page and click on the Update tab. Then, go to the Remote tab, click the Check For Update button, then click Perform System Update.
Name: RAIDiator
Version: 4.1.15
Date: Mon Apr 27 14:19:36 2015
Size:
Description: http://www.readynas.com/RAIDiator_4_1_15_Notes
Solution : I did a hard power re-set, (pulled the power cord), waited 8 minutes, then re-started, the boot process looked normal. Flashing blue light, blinking center light, the 2 HD lights.
System is finally UP as if nothing has happened!
According to the logs, the system turned itself off on schedule on Thursday morning. It should have powered back up that evening, but it never happened. I have to assume it attempted to boot up, but it never completed. So from Thursday evening until this Saturday morning, the unit has been trying to boot itself up, and never reached the point where it stamped the log "System is up".
I'm glad nothing wrong, but puzzled as to what happened, and noteworthy it appears my firmware version of 4.1.1.5 was rolled back to 4.1.1.4. I have to believe the unintended firmware downgrade was the cause?
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