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ReadyNas Duo V2 - Constantly Blinking Blue LED and Windows 11 RAIDar Installation Issues
Hi all - hope you can help me with trying to sort my ReadyNas Duo V2.
I can see the NAS in Windows Explorer fine but the blinking LED is worrying me. Logging in via Firefox does not reveal any issues whatsoever with either of my 2 x 3TB disks (X-Raid 2). Most posts elsewhere suggest issues regarding seeing your data or the NAS cannot be seen but I am not having these issues, so why the blinking LED? I've left it blinking for hours but it never stops!
Also I am trying to get ready to start over with this NAS and put it to a different use. So I have downloaded RAIDar 6.5.0. Trying to install this is becoming a nightmare. First it refuses to install as it requires JAVA of some kind. When I try to install JAVA it bombs out too with some sort of script error. I really need RAIDar so that I can start over, once I've saved the current data, appx 0.7TB.
Could someone please help me please - thank you
The problem is that you need an old version of java - which is a pain.
This runtime binary will work:
Note you can also get the runtime sdk from Oracle, but you need to create an Oracle account to download it.
This is in the second section (titled "Java SE Runtime Environment 8u202"). It appears to be a bit older than the first link (which is version 221) - no idea why that is the caes.
If you ever uninstall this stuff, you need to uninstall RAIDar first, as the uninstall will fail if it can't find the java runtime.
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rozel1 wrote:
ReadyNas Duo V2
Can you confirm that you are running 5.3.x firmware?
If you are running 4.1.x firmware, then you have the original Duo (called a v1 here).
rozel1 wrote:
I can see the NAS in Windows Explorer fine but the blinking LED is worrying me.
Which LED?
rozel1 wrote:
Also I am trying to get ready to start over with this NAS and put it to a different use. So I have downloaded RAIDar 6.5.0.
If you are planning to stick with XRAID, then there is no need to bother with RAIDar.
Thank you for your speedy response - much appreciated. Answers are: -
I'm using 5.3.13 - it's definitely a Duo V2.
The LED immediately below the on/off button.
No I want RAIDar so I can choose whether to use RAID or not.
rozel1 wrote:
The LED immediately below the on/off button.
That is the disk activity LED. Blinking isn't necessarily a problem, though it might be useful to sort out why the disks are always being accessed.
One thing you can try is disconnecting the ethernet cable for a while (maybe 30 minutes or so), and see if that changes the behavior.
rozel1 wrote:
No I want RAIDar so I can choose whether to use RAID or not.
One long-standing bug in RAIDar 6.5 is that it doesn't have the feature that lets you choose XRAID vs FlexRAID with the legacy NAS. You still need RAIDar 4.3.8 for that.
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