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ReadyNAS NV Failing to start
ReadyNAS NV (c.2006) was working fine yesterday. 4 disks installed.
When attempting to access it today, I am unable to do so.
RAIDar can't see it, doesn't respond to ping.
Pressing and holding the power button for 5+ seconds doesn't shut it down.
Pulled mains lead.
Reinstated mains lead.
When I push the power button, all the disk LEDs flash once and the Power light flashes "quickly" for a few seconds before changing to flashing "slowly". All other LEDs remain OFF.
After that, nothing else happens.
RAIDar can't see it, doesn't respond to ping.
Having rummaged in the forums, I found: http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... AS-LED.pdf
It would appear that: "ReadyNAS OS is booting, this stage should not last for more than 3 minutes. Otherwise, one of disk may be bad or incompatible. SATA backplane is the next to be questioned, and then NAND or SODIMM."
Is there a published sequence of steps to further diagnose the root cause?
Preferably without wiping all my data.
Although I cannot now connect to the box at all, I do have a full set of logs, downloaded a couple of days ago, if any of the information therein can help.
Thanks.
When attempting to access it today, I am unable to do so.
RAIDar can't see it, doesn't respond to ping.
Pressing and holding the power button for 5+ seconds doesn't shut it down.
Pulled mains lead.
Reinstated mains lead.
When I push the power button, all the disk LEDs flash once and the Power light flashes "quickly" for a few seconds before changing to flashing "slowly". All other LEDs remain OFF.
After that, nothing else happens.
RAIDar can't see it, doesn't respond to ping.
Having rummaged in the forums, I found: http://www.readynas.com/download/docume ... AS-LED.pdf
It would appear that: "ReadyNAS OS is booting, this stage should not last for more than 3 minutes. Otherwise, one of disk may be bad or incompatible. SATA backplane is the next to be questioned, and then NAND or SODIMM."
Is there a published sequence of steps to further diagnose the root cause?
Preferably without wiping all my data.
Although I cannot now connect to the box at all, I do have a full set of logs, downloaded a couple of days ago, if any of the information therein can help.
Thanks.
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- Personally I'd do the backups before the volume scan (if the data is accessible). There's always some chance a file system repair will go awry.
But if your backups are already good it doesn't make much difference.
Let us know either way how it turns out. - I decided to trust my backups (which subsequently proved to be as complete as I thought they were), allowed the volume scan to run and then popped a new disk into Slot 1.
The RAID claims to have re-built itself and everything now seems happy once again.
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