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Harm22
Aspirant
Jan 10, 2016
Solved

Readynas Ultra 4 not booting

Hello,   I upgraded the firmware of my Readynas Ultra 4 to 4.2.28 today. Unfortunately it seems something went wrong. The unit is now constantly stuck on the 'booting...' screen. I searched the for...
Booting
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  • Harm22's avatar
    Harm22
    Jan 10, 2016

    The problem resolved itself, so it seems :) Finally the NAS booted. It was still on firmware 4.2.27. I now installed 4.2.28 successfully.

    I found 2 odd messages in de log right before the NAS failed to boot:  

    Sun Jan 10 12:53:41 CET 2016=?utf-8?B?U3lzdGVlbXVwZGF0ZXN0YXR1cyAoTUVUQUwtTkFTKQ==?= :
    Sun Jan 10 12:10:20 CET 2016

    =?utf-8?B?U3lzdGVlbXVwZGF0ZXN0YXR1cyAoTUVUQUwtTkFTKQ==?= :

mdgm-ntgr's avatar
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 10, 2016

Now would probably be a good time to update your backup if you haven't already.

 

Do you have any add-ons installed on your system?

Harm22's avatar
Harm22
Aspirant
Jan 11, 2016

Yes. Learned that the hard way one time, so that's not going to happen to me again. I have all my important files stored on several usb hdd's (daily backup) and in the cloud. 

 

Regarding add-ons; I run a few of them. Mainly download services (Sabnzb, Transmission) and dlna services (Minimserver, Twonky).

 

I run a volume check and parity check every week. Last night the system gave the following message:

"The scheduled disk scrubbing was skipped because the operating system volume was degraded.  Please replace the failed disk(s) and the disk scrubbing will occur at the next scheduled time." I went to the 'status' menu and it showed that 3 out of 4 disks were failing?!?! :smileymad:

I'm running a disk check (from the boot menu) right now, so I'm wondering what that will show me.

 

 

  • Harm22's avatar
    Harm22
    Aspirant
    Jan 11, 2016

    Ok, it's getting more interesting. After the scan, 2 out of 4 disks are labeled 'not useable'. I did a reboot, then 1 disk was still labeled 'not useable'. And after another reboot all 4 disks were 'OK'. I'll run some more tests, but it seems that everything is just fine now. Just very odd :smileyfrustrated:

     

     

    • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
      mdgm-ntgr
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Jan 11, 2016

      What brand and model disks are you using?

      • Harm22's avatar
        Harm22
        Aspirant
        Jan 11, 2016

         

        These are the disks:

        Knl 1 : WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 [2794 GB]
        		2790 GB toegewezen  
        Knl 2 : Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 [1863 GB]
        		1858 GB toegewezen  
        Knl 3 : WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 [2794 GB]
        		2790 GB toegewezen  
        Knl 4 : WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 [2794 GB]
        		2790 GB toegewezen

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