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ReadyNAS Duo RND2150 v2 dim blue light and fan always on
I have seen many similar questions and tried the suggested fixes. Have done a firmware reinstall, but the blue light has moved from a slow pulse, to a dim blue light and the fan is running always on....
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Would appreciate some advice frome here. Can I presume the disk is the issue? Should I swap the OK disk into slot 1? Is that a test to see if the bay is the problem and not the disk? Or should I just go buy a disk from the compatibility list for this model?
It is almost certainly the disk - likely the system tried to boot from it and failed. I'd leave disk 2 as it is, and test disk 1 in a windows PC with vendor tools (lifeguard for westen digital, seatools for seagate).
The HCL is long-neglected, so I'd ignore it. A WDC Red or a Seagate Ironwolf are good choices for the duo. The biggest disk your duo can use is 2 TB.
What firmware are you running?
I am thinking you have normal access to the shares, and the web ui. Is that correct?
I hate to admit, but I dont know the firmware version. The device hasnt been available to log into, and want even being allocated an ip address so I have no access to Shares or Admin to try and see what is going on. I have searched another thread where somebody had a failed disk, and I noted the bad disk was removed and the device powered back on. Am trying that at the moment, and note it now has an ip address, there is a load of activity on the remaining disk. Am hoping (maybe incorrectly) that this will bring the system backup and I can replace the dead disk and re-sync
One reason to confirm the firmware - many v1 owners mistakenly believe they have a v2. V1 systems have Sparc CPUs and run 4.1.x firmware; v2 systems have Arm CPUs and run 5.3.x firmware. Another easy way to distinguish the two platforms: a v2 platform will have a v2 label on the front panel.
Note the rear labels are confusing.
andyhogg19 wrote:
Am trying that at the moment, and note it now has an ip address, there is a load of activity on the remaining disk. Am hoping ... that this will bring the system back up and I can replace the dead disk and re-sync
Please let us know!
Progress...the system is back up and all data intact.
Firmware is 4.1.16 (1.00a043)
I have removed disk 1 and let the system come back up and now have full access to data. Disk 1 status is 'Dead' presume this is because the bay is empty, although status was dead when the disk was in the bay.
Would appreciate some advice frome here. Can I presume the disk is the issue? Should I swap the OK disk into slot 1? Is that a test to see if the bay is the problem and not the disk? Or should I just go buy a disk from the compatibility list for this model?
Would probably take the opportunity to buy a bigger capacity at this time, and then upgrade the good disk to the same once the volumes have completed a sync.
Thanks for the help.
Andy
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