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suthers
Jun 28, 2015Aspirant
ReadyNAS Pro2 (RNDP2000) Failing to writeOS to new disk
Hi All, I'll try to keep this brief. ReadyNAS Pro 2 running 2 x 3TB disks as XRaid mirror. This is the sequence: * Disk 2 starts to fail (SMART errors) * Hot remove Disk 2, insert replacement dis...
suthers
Jun 29, 2015Aspirant
The overnight sync completed, but with increasing SMART errors from failing disk 2.
As I feared, I am now again unable to boot from the new replacement disk I just sync'd onto. Looks like you are correct and a corrupt OS partition is being mirrored onto it every time it sync's from the failing disk 2.
I have just tried again to boot into OS Reinstall mode and it again seems to have no effect. Why?
Is my best solution to install 2 new disks, boot into factory reset, then restore configuration, then restore data from external backup?
As I feared, I am now again unable to boot from the new replacement disk I just sync'd onto. Looks like you are correct and a corrupt OS partition is being mirrored onto it every time it sync's from the failing disk 2.
I have just tried again to boot into OS Reinstall mode and it again seems to have no effect. Why?
Is my best solution to install 2 new disks, boot into factory reset, then restore configuration, then restore data from external backup?
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