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ReadyNas Ultra 6 stuck on READYNAS logo
Hi all, hope everyone is well. I was working on my readynas Ultra 6 Pro the other night by scheduling maintenance - Defrag, Balance and Scrub. I has set up the schedule for the 28th of every month a...
Its been a few weeks but had a lot going on and got back to this issue and managed to get a windows pc and downloaded and installed the software you recommended to test the HDD's (also to note there is a Mac version 🙂 )
Anyways I started with the Seagate software and ran the Long Test (no mention of destructive btw). So the following is the results with this software up to present time.
HDD 1 - Passed
HDD 2 - Passed
HDD 3 - Passed
HDD 4 - Passed
HDD 5 - Currently testing
HDD 6 - Immediately Failed
In case you're wondering how I know this.... lol - I could not unscrew HDD 5 from the cradle (well 1 crew in particular) so jumped to HDD 6 as it takes about 12-14 hours to test a drive.
When I inserted the drive into the caddy and turned it on the software immediately came up with the exclamation mark and when I tried all the various tests it failed after about 5-10 seconds of starting.
I am just wondering - there is a Fix All option in the software - any good to run this with that drive ? or would it destroy the data on it eg (RAID5 system)
Also, If this being the issue (fingers crossed) can I boot up the NAS with just the 5 HDD's in it or should I wait until I get a replacement drive.
Many thanks
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You can try booting up with just the 5 drives and see if it comes up with a degraded (non-redundant) volume. It's possible that the one bad drive was affecting the entire SATA subsystem, so it's your only problem. But it's not that likely. There is no "fix all" because there are too many things that can go wrong. StephenB can help you with the commands needed to try and assemble the volume once he gets a look at your logs.
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