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Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 on a RN4200V2
As a satisfied ReadyNas user of a RN6000 and 2 of the 316 series for years now, I purchased a RN4200 V2 one month ago, in pristine condition, including 6 disks which didn't have any errors. Upgraded ...
I've encountered a very similar situation. Running a ReadyNAS 314 for some time and recently updated the firmware to 6.9, and then again to 6.9.1 in the last week. Had trouble accessing the drives from MacOS X El Capitan (10.11.6) - at the time I could connect via SMB but unable to write any data. Then I logged into the admin interface and restarted the ReadyNAS. Now it reports "No volume exists. NETGEAR recommends that you create a volume before configuring other settings. Navigate to the Systems -> Volumes page to create a volume." Looking at the Volumes page it says I should "Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3,4." All my disks are shown in RED, labeled as Spare, volume state is NEW, and when I select them my choice is to Format. They were part of a RAID 5 data volume.
If I remove the inactive volumes do I lose my data? What are my options? Right now it seems everything is lost.
So we have the same situation, all my disks are red too. Seems like OS 6 is somewhat buggy. As I said, had the same thing on both my 316's and now again on another RaedyNas. I hope someone here can help us. Don't you still have support for your 314?
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