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ReadyNASRND2000 bricked.
Hi guys.
My ReadyNASRND2000 is not powering on. Totally dead. Had a few powercuts recently - no idea if they were related.
What is my best next move - my last external back up was over ...
OK - thanks for the help guys.
Pretty sure i have a V1 readynasduo.
Looking a bit closer - my power supply light was not on! Now confirmed it is blown.
I have orderd a replacement power supply and will try that in first instance... if there are issues then at least I know about using the linux setup to try and get data off.Cheers for the help!
Hi Doccy,
I would recommend you to try recovering the data by installing a copy of linux like mint cinnamon through live usb, you may follow this blog https://www.lifewire.com/create-uefi-bootable-linux-mint-usb-2202084 to create a live bootable usb. Once you boot into mint, you shall be able to view your RAID partitions. After you’ve done this, attach your external HDD which must be equivalent or larger than the size of the array.
However if you are not able to recover using this method, you could also use recovery tools like Stellar Raid Recovery or R-Studio Network Edition. They have a pretty straightforward recovery process IMO.
Crazyraider wrote:
I would recommend you to try recovering the data by installing a copy of linux like mint cinnamon through live usb, you may follow this blog https://www.lifewire.com/create-uefi-bootable-linux-mint-usb-2202084 to create a live bootable usb.
While this is an option, R-Linux for Windows is much simpler, since it requires no knowledge of linux. The sparc-based NAS require installing some older tools to access the RAID array, so it's not as simple as creating a live USB and booting it up.
So I recommend trying the windows tool first - we can circle back to this if the Windows tools fail.
- Amazingly enough, the very same thing happened to mine too, at the same time as Doccy, after exactly five years of use in a RAID1 configuration. The thing simply won't turn on when I press the On button. It's not a power supply failure, and I'd be extremely surprised if this was due to a power surge, because it was on a battery backup/surge protector and no other gear has suffered. I think it's likely that there is no disk damage (the failure happened when the NAS wasn't in use) and I'd like to check if I can reuse my 3TB units in an empty frame before starting all over again and spending a lot more money. Underneath the box there's a sticker that says FW:V4.2.21 and I've faithfully updated the firmware whenever I was asked to. I usually work on a Mac, but I do have a Linux laptop and I've just read a bit about RAID1 on Linux https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid
Does this mean that the RAID metadata is in a weird format, or at a weird location? I'm surprised that the use of a SPARC MPU (if that's what I have on mine) would make a difference in the configuration file format. Can you give a bit more information about this StephenB? Thanks
The sparc-based NAS require installing some older tools to access the RAID array, so it's not as simple as creating a live USB and booting it up.
alcofribas wrote:
Does this mean that the RAID metadata is in a weird format, or at a weird location? I'm surprised that the use of a SPARC MPU (if that's what I have on mine) would make a difference in the configuration file format. Can you give a bit more information about this StephenB? Thanks
The sparc-based NAS require installing some older tools to access the RAID array, so it's not as simple as creating a live USB and booting it up.First of all, if you have 4.2.x firmware you have an Intel CPU (Pro or Ultra), and not a Sparc CPU (NV, NV+ v1, Duo v1). The internals are quite different (including details of the RAID).
The RAID on the older sparc units does use some hardware-acceleration built into the sparc CPU chip. There are a few more details on that here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050404005773/en/Infrant-Technologies-Introduces-IT3100-Network-Storage-Processor. (Note Netgear purchased Infrant in 2007). Your system uses purely software RAID.
However, the sparc array can be mounted with standard linux tools - they are just old ones that are not included in new linux distributions. There method is outlined here: http://jim-st.blogspot.com/2012/07/mouning-readynas-drives-on-x86-systems.html. HOWEVER, that is specific to sparc-based ReadyNAS, not the x86 model that you have.
alcofribas wrote:
The thing simply won't turn on when I press the On button. It's not a power supply failureAre you sure? If only the 5V is working, the LCD and some other stuff will power up, but the system won't boot.
Try removing the disks (labeling by slot so you preserve the order), and then power up the NAS. See if it gives you a "no disks" status on the LCD. If it does, then install RAIDar 4.3.8 on your mac, and see if it detects the NAS (and what status it gives you). https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads#raidar
There are other causes of failure to boot - disk failures and a full OS partition are two others.
alcofribas wrote:
five years of use in a RAID1 configuration.RAID-1 has the advantage of simpler recovery, since there is no RAID striping. There is a complication in the sparc-based systems, as the RAID "parity" disk can't be accessed from linux. But that doesn't apply to your system.
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