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Readynas ultra 6 won't go past readynas screen
Ho all, after many years I've decided to tackle my readymas issue. I had an issue with it 3 years back and paid a tech to look at it, he said 2 drives had collapsed and replaced them. It worked again...
"ReadyNAS" is the default display, programmed into the display panel. So the NAS does not even have to complete POST to display that. All it needs is (not even very well regulated) 5V. A bad drive is almost never the cause for it stopping there -- you will normally get some other error displayed -- unless the drive is drawing a huge amount of current. And the fact that you can't even pull up the reset button menu makes it almost certain it's not a drive.
Does it do the same with all drives removed? If it does, then the drives are not the issue. While there are then a multitude of potential failures that can cause this, the power supply is the leading one.
Did you happen to do an OS update immediately before this happened? If you did, then a corrupt vpd file may be to blame. It could be the VPD even if you didn't do an update, but that's more rare. In the case of a corrupt vpd, RAIDar should still detect it, but the model number and/or serial number will be wrong (typically gibberish).
It does boot properly without the drives. No updates were done prior and its just been sitting off for a year. It did this before and thats when I got the tech out to fix it, and it was running fine for 6 months then it happened again - so I just assumed it was a 2 drive failure like last time. I cant afford a tech this time :P Hence (adult) kids trying to fix it.
Does RAIDar detect it? And if so, what status does it show?
No raidar does not detect it at all :( it also did that last time my drives stopped working, hence why I was thinking two drives have died and its in some sort of protective mode.
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