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BillyNar
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Apr 17, 2019
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rn312 bricked after firmware upgrade

sed Just started working with this unit.  It was running at 6.2.4.  When I accesed the admin menu, it prompted to upgrade the firmware to 6.9.3 and I accepted.  Since then it goes through the follo...
  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    Apr 17, 2019

    Hi BillyNar , I would go as follows

    (1) With the nas shutdown remove the disks, but keep in mind, which one came from which bay

    (2) Find a single blank (not partitioned at all) sparedisk and insert it into the nas

    (3) Boot (hopefully successful), do a setup from scratch and upgrade to the most recent level you want to apply (6.9.5 is long-term support; 6.10.0 is stable)

    (4) Decide, whether you want to continue with the larger disks or reinsert those you removed in step (1)

    (5) Continue as necessary

     

    In case step (3) fails, with the nas shutdown remove the single spare disk and (re-)insert the disks removed in step (1) into the same bays they came from to get back to the status quo ante. In this (sad) case, sorry for misguiding you.

     

    Good luck with fixing and kind regards

     

     

     

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