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Unable to Stream any HD Content from my ReadyNAS Pro 6
Hey There, Everyone! New on the forum as of today, and ReadyNAS Pro 6 owner for approximately 1 week now! Happy to be aboard! Unfortunately I have run into a problem which is quite frustrating, b...
Hey There!
Well, after doing a little more digging, I think I may have solved the problem! Since the system.log said devices 3-6 all needed a firmware update, and they were the ones having the errors in the log as well, I applied a little Google-fu to the drive make/model, and it turns out this drive with this firmware had issues freezing, especially in RAIDs, and there was a firmware update to address this!
That gave me great hope, but it ended up being a pain in the you know what :twisted: to get the update done, given my hardware situation. There's no way to update the firmware while the drive is in the ReadyNAS (no fault of Netgear on that one!), and I only had access to Macs. Luckily, I came across this:
http://www.tow.com/2008/12/12/updating- ... -firmware/
Which ended up being exactly what I had to do. I downloaded the bootable CD image from Seagate, then went rummaging around for 30 minutes trying to find blank CD-Rs ;) After that, took the drives out of the ReadyNAS, one at a time, removed them from the drive-tray, put it in my Mac Pro drive-dray, booted from the CD (couldn't believe it worked - booting FreeDOS an a Mac!), and then flashed the drive. It took about an hour to do all four of them.
Then I put them back in the NAS, and booted it up just fine, did not have any problem with the drives after the upgrade, and no data had been lost. It currently shows everything as healthy, and I have now streamed over 15 minutes of 1080p HD content over my Gigabit from the NAS to my Mac Pro, and there were no issues or any of the errors mentioned above in the log this time.
Unfortunately I have to run out to take care of some things, so I'll give it a more extensive test this evening, and report back, but hopefully lesson learned - always check your drive model and firmware for any known issues, and take care of it BEFORE you put them in an expensive RAID! :slap:
Many thanks to TeknoJnky for pointing me to the drives, rather than the NAS itself!
Well, after doing a little more digging, I think I may have solved the problem! Since the system.log said devices 3-6 all needed a firmware update, and they were the ones having the errors in the log as well, I applied a little Google-fu to the drive make/model, and it turns out this drive with this firmware had issues freezing, especially in RAIDs, and there was a firmware update to address this!
That gave me great hope, but it ended up being a pain in the you know what :twisted: to get the update done, given my hardware situation. There's no way to update the firmware while the drive is in the ReadyNAS (no fault of Netgear on that one!), and I only had access to Macs. Luckily, I came across this:
http://www.tow.com/2008/12/12/updating- ... -firmware/
Which ended up being exactly what I had to do. I downloaded the bootable CD image from Seagate, then went rummaging around for 30 minutes trying to find blank CD-Rs ;) After that, took the drives out of the ReadyNAS, one at a time, removed them from the drive-tray, put it in my Mac Pro drive-dray, booted from the CD (couldn't believe it worked - booting FreeDOS an a Mac!), and then flashed the drive. It took about an hour to do all four of them.
Then I put them back in the NAS, and booted it up just fine, did not have any problem with the drives after the upgrade, and no data had been lost. It currently shows everything as healthy, and I have now streamed over 15 minutes of 1080p HD content over my Gigabit from the NAS to my Mac Pro, and there were no issues or any of the errors mentioned above in the log this time.
Unfortunately I have to run out to take care of some things, so I'll give it a more extensive test this evening, and report back, but hopefully lesson learned - always check your drive model and firmware for any known issues, and take care of it BEFORE you put them in an expensive RAID! :slap:
Many thanks to TeknoJnky for pointing me to the drives, rather than the NAS itself!
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