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Supertramp11
Jun 22, 2016Luminary
Upgraded PRO 6 to 6.5.1, had fan problems, went back to 6.5.0 and all is well again
Hi, After having succesfully used 6.5.0 on my PRO 6 since the day it came out, I upgraded to 6.5.1 today. The system fan started to act weird. When putting the fans on COOL, it took a little whi...
StephenB
Jun 22, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Just to clarify - did you install the released 6.5.1 or 6.5.1-RC1?
- Supertramp11Jun 22, 2016Luminary
Hi Stephen,
6.5.1, which you can download from http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/ -> storage -> ReadyNAS -> ReadyNAS-OS6.
- garyd9Jun 22, 2016Virtuoso
I'm a bit confused which model is which... I have the 6.5.1 released today installed on a Pro (RNDP6000-100) and have no fan issues beyond the normal oddities I'm used to seeing with running OS 6 on it.
This unit was actually recently factory reset with firmware 6.5.0 on it (but I doubt that makes any difference in regards to fan speeds.)
- dbreiny1Jun 24, 2016Aspirant
I had this same issue. 6.5.0 on ReadyNAS Pro 6 works fine, but 6.5.1 caused alerts every few minutes with fan speeds that were too slow, even after setting it on "COOL". I rolled back to 6.5.0 and the issue went away, so the firmware is definitely not working correctly on the Pro 6.
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