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ReadyNAS Ultra 6 stucking Booting
Hello everyone, I have an ReadyNAS Ultra 6 that has in the past recovered gracefully from a relatively large number of drive failures (RMA drives that are nearly 3 years old) and my Ultra 6 has nev...
mdgm-ntgr, I have read a lot of great advices from you during the past two weeks searching for solution for a similar but more complicated problem.
My Ultra 6 hangs on "booting" after probably a disk failure. I contacted the Netgear support and was told to diagnose the disks. The seemingly simple task was complicated by me not labeling the disk order when I removed them ( 5X3T Seagate) from the chassis.
I have bought an entry level Thinkserver and installed Ubuntu on it. I was hoping that I could follow some of guides I came across to mount the drives on Ubuntu. But without the drive order, I do not think I am going anywhere.
Any suggestion? Thanks.
Best to keep the order of the disks the same, but it might not matter.
There are files on the OS partition would indicate the drive order.
Thank you for the quick reply. Hopefully the drive order does not matter with Ubuntu.
But in case it matters, then Ubuntu can not assemble the array and the files on the OS partition are not accessible.
Any other place I can figure out the drive order?
Why are you wanting to try to mount the disks outside the NAS in the first place?
What you should be checking is SMART stats or running e.g. SeaTools to check SeaGate disks to identify if there is a bad disk.According to Netgear support, "Altering the disk arrangement will rebuild the volume. It means, that the volume will reset the RAID configuration causing the data to be deleted. "
Without knowing the original drive order, I am afraid that I am out of luck to do anything within the NAS.
I have done Seagate disk check and identified the failed disk. Replacement disk is in hand. But in the process of figuring out the next step to take.
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