ReadyNAS Duo won't update with latest firmware

motah33 wrote:
It's been running for a while now and I noticed the squence with the disk1/disk2 leds went as follows: 10-01-11-00 (I think).

That just indicates the test is running.

motah33 wrote:
Then, the act led came on and the disk1/disk2 leds went off. It's been stuck in this state for a long, long time whereas the other sequences went quite quickly. I don't know if the tests are any differenct with the act led on but it certainly stuck here. If this is signifying a memory problem, then what is the spec of original memory in the Duo so that I can get a replacement?

I think it should be both disk LEDs lit when it's finished but I'm not sure. Maybe the result when it's finished would be both LEDs off. Have you tried powering off the NAS and running the test a second time?

Trying it again... I think it might have been ok. I realised that that disk leds aren't as bright as the act one. But I will run the test again. I was looking at the logs and I found the following in the system.log file after I boot. I don't know if this is anything to worry about:

Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: Creating 2 MTD partitions on "NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit":
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: 0x00000000-0x00100000 : "P0 flash partition 1"
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: 0x00100000-0x04000000 : "P0 flash partition 2"
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: NEON flash: probing 8-bit flash bus
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: CFI: Found no NEON flash device at location zero
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: NEON flash: unknown flash device, mfr id 0x1, dev id 0x0
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: NEON flash: Found no Atmel device at location zero
Oct 21 03:24:46 readynas kernel: This board is not supported.

May have to run the memory test again. This time, it ended up with all 3 leds off for quite a while and so I switched it off. I hit the power button and I had to wait quite a while before it rebooted itself. I'll run the test again to see if it does it again. It does the sequence with disk 1 led being on and then you can see it moving through a pattern.

Looking around hunting for clues, I found this partition.log:

Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/hdc: 500.0 GB, 500097376256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60800 cylinders, total 976752688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 2 4096001 2048000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc2 4096002 4608001 256000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc3 4608002 976736305 486064152 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 4608003 976736305 486064151+ 8e Linux LVM

No idea what this is about.

That looks normal.

So you have SSH access?

Funny you should say that as I've just inststalled the add-on. I presume I need some sort of terminal program to get access to it?

I just want to say that I appreciate all the help, mdgm.

I'm going to have to disappear soon but if you want to give me some things to try, please feel free and I'll run through them and get back the results.

Support want me to do a factory reset but I thought I'd like to investigate some more if we can.

Are you on a Windows PC or a Mac?

I'm on PC running Windows XP SP3. I've got PuTTY running and I can log in to the ReadyNAS.

O.K. Start by posting the output of the following commands:

# df -h
# df -i
# ls -la /tmp