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BillyNar
Apr 17, 2019Initiate
rn312 bricked after firmware upgrade
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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_MemberApr 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
Retired_Member
Apr 17, 2019Hi 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
- BillyNarApr 18, 2019Initiate
Thanks. Was able to get the firmware up to 9.6.5 and running OK on the new larger disks.
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