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bubdub
Jun 21, 2013Follower
ReadyNAS Ultra 6 stucking Booting
Hello everyone, I have an ReadyNAS Ultra 6 that has in the past recovered gracefully from a relatively large number of drive failures (RMA drives that are nearly 3 years old) and my Ultra 6 has nev...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 23, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
Power down the NAS, remove disks (label order), hook them up to an internal SATA port in your PC and check them (e.g. check SeaGate disks using SeaTools). The Ultimate Boot CD is very useful for this.
You could have another disk that is failing/dead.
You could have another disk that is failing/dead.
whateverittakes
Sep 02, 2015Aspirant
mdgm-ntgr, I have read a lot of great advices from you during the past two weeks searching for solution for a similar but more complicated problem.
My Ultra 6 hangs on "booting" after probably a disk failure. I contacted the Netgear support and was told to diagnose the disks. The seemingly simple task was complicated by me not labeling the disk order when I removed them ( 5X3T Seagate) from the chassis.
I have bought an entry level Thinkserver and installed Ubuntu on it. I was hoping that I could follow some of guides I came across to mount the drives on Ubuntu. But without the drive order, I do not think I am going anywhere.
Any suggestion? Thanks.
- mdgm-ntgrSep 03, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Best to keep the order of the disks the same, but it might not matter.
There are files on the OS partition would indicate the drive order.
- whateverittakesSep 03, 2015Aspirant
Thank you for the quick reply. Hopefully the drive order does not matter with Ubuntu.
But in case it matters, then Ubuntu can not assemble the array and the files on the OS partition are not accessible.
Any other place I can figure out the drive order?
- mdgm-ntgrSep 03, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Why are you wanting to try to mount the disks outside the NAS in the first place?
What you should be checking is SMART stats or running e.g. SeaTools to check SeaGate disks to identify if there is a bad disk.
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