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RN314 won't power up
This morning (3 July 2020), my Netgear RN314 did not power up as usual. It is a 4 disk system running OS 6 with the latest firmware. I tried changing the outlet for the external power supply brick, a...
It's actually a separate RAID with a separate set of partitions, but I think that's what you meant. fdisk -l will show you all the partitions. If you have more than one drive size or have ever upgraded from smaller drives without an OS re-install, the main BTRFS volume will span more than one RAID "layer".
cleveland_rocks wrote:
Do I understand you correctly that Netgear put a 4GB partition on the RAID to run their OS 6?
Yes, and also a small swap partition. The OS partition is RAID-1 (mirrored on every disk). I've seen a couple of different RAID formats used for the swap.
cleveland_rocks wrote:
My intention was to build a server running Xen on its own physical SSD and then have my 4 x 4TB hard disk RAID mounted on that system.
You can of course do that, since you don't need to mount the OS partition.
It's actually a separate RAID with a separate set of partitions, but I think that's what you meant. fdisk -l will show you all the partitions. If you have more than one drive size or have ever upgraded from smaller drives without an OS re-install, the main BTRFS volume will span more than one RAID "layer".
All the drives are the original ones installed, and they are all 4TB. What concerns me is that the RAID is encrypted, but I do have the USB with the key in working order.
Does this present a problem if I wanted to mount the RAID in a new server? Is there a way of entering the key manually to unlock the data, or am I stuck with trying to source a used ReadyNAS?
Netgear has not published any information on decrypting an encrypted ReadyNAS volume outside of a ReadyNAS. While it appears to be using standard Linux LUKS, there are a lot of options for its use that Netgear has not revealed. But in general, it is not possible with LUKS to enter the decryption key manually when it was created as a file.
If you have the proper key file backup, you can always create a new key and mount the volume on another ReadyNAS, assuming the volume is otherwise intact. I have tried and failed to get USB access working on a ReadyNAS virtual machine to see if that could also be used. The necessary headers are missing to compile the VirtualBox Guest Additions required for USB support, and my post regarding that has been completely ignored.
As an aside, the RN424 is not shown as end-of-life on the Netgear support page ( https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RN424.aspx ), and it is not shown as end-of-life on the list on the warranty page https://www.netgear.com/about/warranty/
That list can be directly accessed here: https://www.netgear.com/images/aboutus/warranty/SMB_External_EOL_List_0331-2019.pdf
Are you inferring that it is discontinued (from lack of availability)? If not, can you provide the source of your information?
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