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RND2150-100NAS Power Light blinking
Heard a weird noise from my RND2150-100NAS, so tried rebooting it by holding the power button down. Since the device wouldn't reboot that way, just unplugged power and tried to do hard reboot, which usually worked in the past but after multiple attempts I see that the power light blinking continuously. ACT, Disk 1 and Disk 2 lights blink just once for a second as soon as I turn on but they do not stay on. I run RAIDar v4.1.3 on my Mac, it does not see this divice.
I installed two Seagate 1TB disks in this device and it was working fine until a week ago. Recently I used this as a destination to auto backup of important files from my PC and I am guessing that may have filled up the disks. Just worried about failed disks and loosing data (family pictures). other than the pictures I am not worried about the rest of the data.
I have seen few posts that are somewhat similar but just want to make sure I do it right and do not wipe out data. Please help.
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Hello MK21,
It does appear that after generating a weird noise and power button stop responding you can no longer detect the NAS on the network. This might be signs of internal or hardware fault, please try to bypass the network connect computer directly to the NAS and check if the raidar can detect it. Also please check if you could still access and the boot menu of the NAS.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Marty_M
NETGEAR Community TeamAlso I suggest checking out the two disks with seatools if you can - that requires access to a Windows PC and perhaps a USB->sata adapter.
Dear Marty_M:
Thanks for your reply. Like you suggested I tried connecting NAS to my computer directly (ethernet on NAS to ethernet on my laptop) and Raidar still doesn't recognize. When I connect this way the power light stops blinking after a while but Raidar wouldn't recognize. You also suggested to check if I can access the boot menu, not sure how to do this. Looks like a internal harware issue to me also and is there anything that I try to make sure this is the case?
MK21 wrote:
Looks like a internal harware issue to me also and is there anything that I try to make sure this is the case?
Power down the NAS, and remove the drives (labeling them by slot). Then power it up, and see if RAIDar detects the NAS. It should show a "no disks" status. Make sure the NAS is powered down when you reinsert the disks.
MK21 wrote:
You also suggested to check if I can access the boot menu, not sure how to do this.
The hardware manual for your duo v1 tells you how to do this. See pages 15-16 here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RND2110/Duov1_NV+v1_HW_en_06Dec11.pdf
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