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ReadyNAS Duo V1 - Unable to acces frontview
Found an old ReadyNAS Duo V1, tried to get it up and running, installed ssh and apt plugins, but then I wanted to put the disks in raid0 and I discovered that to do that I needed to factory reset the...
Vitt8matic wrote:Raidar tells me I'm running 4.1.6, exactly as before the factory reset.
Yes, a reset just re-installs the existing software, it doesn't update anything. You did do this with the drives installed, correct? It does nothing if not.
4.1.6 or 4.1.16? If 4.1.6, that's pretty old. There was a change in HTML early on that caused issues, but I think that was before 4.1.6.
You may need to do a USB recovery.
Raidar tells me I'm running 4.1.6, exactly as before the factory reset. The disk are Hitachi deskstar 320GB each, model 0A33435. I am using http before the address for the shares page and https for the frontview.
Vitt8matic wrote:Raidar tells me I'm running 4.1.6, exactly as before the factory reset.
Yes, a reset just re-installs the existing software, it doesn't update anything. You did do this with the drives installed, correct? It does nothing if not.
4.1.6 or 4.1.16? If 4.1.6, that's pretty old. There was a change in HTML early on that caused issues, but I think that was before 4.1.6.
You may need to do a USB recovery.
Yes, the drives were installed. The version is 4.1.6. What do I need to do for a USB recovery?
Vitt8matic wrote:Yes, the drives were installed. The version is 4.1.6. What do I need to do for a USB recovery?
https://kb.netgear.com/21400/RAIDiator-4-1-USB-Recovery-Tool
I suggest you go all the way to 4.1.16 when you do this.
Vitt8matic wrote:
The version is 4.1.6. What do I need to do for a USB recovery?
Are you seeing this in RAIDar? Or are you seeing it on a label on the NAS?
The label just shows the firmware it was shipped with, not what it is running now. 4.1.6 was released in 2009, so it would be surprising if the previous owner never updated it.
Yes I used Raidar to check the version, but from what I remember before doing the factory reset and losing access to the front view it said that there were no updates availabe. Probably because they closed the servers?
Vitt8matic wrote:
Yes I used Raidar to check the version, but from what I remember before doing the factory reset and losing access to the front view it said that there were no updates availabe.
That suggests you might have been running 4.1.16.
Though it is possible that they changed the server URLs after 4.1.6 (I vaguely remember something about that). You can manually install firmware from here:
Download from the link, and extract the binary from the zip file.
Personally I'd try another factory reset with just one disk in place (not switching to RAID-0). If that works, then try upgrading the firmware.
Keep in mind that the NAS is limited to drives <= 2 TB in size. Many new drives in this size range are SMR, which often don't work well with RAID. I generally recommend WD Red Plus (NOT WD Red) and Seagate Ironwold drives for your NAS.
Ok so I installe the bin on a USB key, reinstalled the OS from it, and I can finally acces frontview, but raidar still shows me 4.1.6. Could it be an error from Raidar?
Vitt8matic wrote:
Ok so I installe the bin on a USB key, reinstalled the OS from it, and I can finally acces frontview, but raidar still shows me 4.1.6. Could it be an error from Raidar?
What does Frontview say you are running?
Frontview says 4.1.6, but on the USB drive I installed 4.1.16
Vitt8matic wrote:
Frontview says 4.1.6...
Then manually install 4.1.16 from Frontview.
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