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mabx99
Jun 08, 2021Aspirant
ReadyNAS Pro 6 boot failure, migrate disks to new RN526X00
I have a ReadyNAS Pro 6 (RNDP6000-200NAS) which is now failing to boot. Even upon removing the disk drives, I cannot access the console login via browser. The front panel shows "ERR: No disks detec...
mabx99
Jun 10, 2021Aspirant
StephenB and Sandshark Thanks for both your suggestions. Yes, I had installed RAIDar on my Mac and it was only reporting "Status: System starting up...". After exhausting other debugging attempts (including verifying power supply voltages because I did have to replace that a couple years ago), I pulled the 2 drives from a ReadyNAS Duo which is no longer in service. The ailing ReadyNAS Pro 6 detected those two drives and booted, although it does not mount the volumes presumably because of the NAS differences. I then proceeded to try one of the drives in each of the 6 slots-- it would boot the system in each of the slots, but still failing the filesystem check as I would expect.
So this raises questions about the original 6 drives in the system. Could one of them alone hold up the boot process like this? Any suggestions from here would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, I had an RN628X on order but my distributor is claiming these were discontinued on June 1 and cancelled my order. I was surprised since they are still shown as an active product on the Netgear site. I'm still wanting to replace with Netgear in hopes of transferring data.
Thanks much!
Mike
mdgm
Jun 10, 2021Virtuoso
The Duo v1 uses a Sparc CPU and Duo v2 uses an ARM CPU. They both use different CPU architectures to the Pro 6 which uses an Intel CPU.
It could be a bad disk or a full OS partition. This can be troubleshooted from tech support mode (a boot menu option). If it won't boot into tech support mode with the disks installed then that would likely point to a bad disk or some other hardware issue.
If the problem is a bad disk or a full root volume that would remain when moving the disks to another chassis.
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