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Aspirant

Jan 05, 2018

ReadyNAS Duo v1 not responsive - stuck on RAID resync?

A while ago I got an email from my seven year-old ReadyNAS which has 2 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive (WD20EARS): "Access to the disk on channel (??) is producing I/O error...

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StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Jan 05, 2018

It's a little tricky if it's in the middle of a resync.

You can try powering down the NAS, and connecting disk 1 to a windows PC (either SATA or via USB). R-linux for Windows can be used to access the data volume. http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/

hungoverdrawn
Aspirant
Jan 05, 2018
According to RAIDar the resync is stuck on 0.0% (see attached), though as I say before it became unresponsive it was showing as in progress in Frontview.

As it's unresponsive and I can't currently access my data, I guess there's nothing to be lost by powering it down and pulling a drive. Will it come up with only one drive in the enclosure, and does it need to be in slot 1?

Thanks again.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Jan 05, 2018
  hungoverdrawn wrote:
  
  Will it come up with only one drive in the enclosure, and does it need to be in slot 1?
  
  It should come up with only one drive, in either slot. I'd pull disk 1 after you power it down, as that would let you extract the data if needed (as I described above).