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ReadyNAS NV (original) exhibits strange booting behavior
I have a 7 years old NV box made by Infrant with two 250GB Seagate Barracuda drives. I hadn't used it for a while, but felt suddenly motivated to build a personal cloud. So, last weekend, I fired it u...
I didn't have much data so it was OK to get reformatted :-) He did not give me SMART stats.
I have tried one drive, both drives, various combinations and various slots. The end result is always corrupt root.
I have also figured out that my unit has the original bootloader. I was able to put it into the TFTP mode, by looking at the lights guide. The LEDs on top of disks 1 & 4 are solid green while the blue power LED flashes. The unit is certainly expecting data from a TFTP server. Another thing - when I do a factory reset with no drives inserted in the device, obviously, it does not complete booting completely, but I am able to shut it down using the power button.
This behavior leads me to believe that while the drives may be checking out as far the repair shop goes, they may be degraded enough for the NAS to do anything with. I also think that my unit is basically fine - it's just that the bootloader and the software are fairly old and I shouldn't bother playing with it till I change the drive.
I was just thinking of ordering a RE3 WD1002FBYS and testing it out. If that still doesn't work, I can always put it in an enclosure and use as a backup disk.
Thoughts?
I have tried one drive, both drives, various combinations and various slots. The end result is always corrupt root.
I have also figured out that my unit has the original bootloader. I was able to put it into the TFTP mode, by looking at the lights guide. The LEDs on top of disks 1 & 4 are solid green while the blue power LED flashes. The unit is certainly expecting data from a TFTP server. Another thing - when I do a factory reset with no drives inserted in the device, obviously, it does not complete booting completely, but I am able to shut it down using the power button.
This behavior leads me to believe that while the drives may be checking out as far the repair shop goes, they may be degraded enough for the NAS to do anything with. I also think that my unit is basically fine - it's just that the bootloader and the software are fairly old and I shouldn't bother playing with it till I change the drive.
I was just thinking of ordering a RE3 WD1002FBYS and testing it out. If that still doesn't work, I can always put it in an enclosure and use as a backup disk.
Thoughts?
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