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ReadyNAS NV+ blinking lights
hello, I haven't needed to even think about my ReadyNAS in so long that I forgot everything I ever learned! We had a power outage the other day followed by some brown outs then I am assuming a power surge. When I got home and restarted the ReadyNAS it wasn't cooperative.
Here is what it's doing:
2 slow blinks on the first disk light, then three fast blinks of all the lights including the act light and the power light.
I am assuming this means disk 1 is dead or dying. I cannot access the ReadyNAS from the network.
My plan is to run out and get anew HD and swap it out. Please let me know if I am on the right path or if there is something else wrong.
THANKS!
Here is what it's doing:
2 slow blinks on the first disk light, then three fast blinks of all the lights including the act light and the power light.
I am assuming this means disk 1 is dead or dying. I cannot access the ReadyNAS from the network.
My plan is to run out and get anew HD and swap it out. Please let me know if I am on the right path or if there is something else wrong.
THANKS!
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- Slippers...
Any solution....??
My is also doing it now... đ - Hi BruceBanner and StephenB - I have an identical problem and was curious if anything worked?
I had to replace a PSU in my unit, but the LED's are forever blinking (Bay 1 3x, then all LED's 3x).
LCD seems to no longer work either.
I did pull out all HD's and replaced with a a single blank HD, but it made no difference.
Is there anything else I can try before I call it quits and look for a replacement unit? - On a 2-disk duo v1 that code means "no disks detected". (http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?paged=5)
Do you have a scratch disk? If so you could try removing all disk (labeling slot) and insert the unformatted scratch disk by itself and see what happens. - it acts the same if there are 4 disks or 0 disks.
- okay, so the "reset button" on the back isn't doing anything. Neither is holding the power button for any length of time while switching it on.
Next step is to test the individual drives.
This sucks. - ugh. I don't know what the firmware is.
I'll try booting without disk 1 tonight.
I can't access any menu. It's just locked in that flash cycle.
Of course I don't have a backup. It's never a problem until something fails. - That led pattern doesn't match the ones listed here:
http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... AS-LED.pdf
, so difficult to know what it means.
Do you have a backup?
Perhaps power down, remove each disk and test it using vendor tools. Remember the slot numbers ( label the disks).
Alternatively or in addition, you could try booting the nas without disk 1, if it boots then that's your diagnosis. I'm not sure it is that simple though.
What firmware was running?
Can you access the boot menu, if so then also run a memory test.
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