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x600A won't boot
I upgraded the disks my x600a to 4x2tb, and did a factory reset. prior to upgrading the disks, i upgraded RAIDiator 4.1.7. First go around, everything seemed to go normal, and then RAIDar stopped detecting the nas. only the power led was on doing a slow blink. i could ping the device...so i rebooted the device into factory reset again. now, i get the LED pattern for "Boot loader fails to locate valid RAIDiator image". I've tried TFTP booting, and that doesn't seem to be working. once tftp finishes i have a amber leds flashing 1234 and 1/3 back and forth. the led list doesn't have an entry for this. not sure what my next steps should be.
thanks in advance.
thanks in advance.
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- is it possible to write 4.1.7 to a new cf card, put it in the machine, boot it and restore configs? or will i be forced to do a factory wipe?
- You should do a factory default on 4.1.7 but the NAS should still boot if you don't.
I don't think you've mentioned what model disk you are using yet. This could be important. - ah sorry.
using WD20EARS
WD 2TB caviar greens.
if i do the factory default on 4.1.7, should i have all 4 drives hooked up? or should i add them 1 by one, and hope force expansion expands the volume correctly? - You need to factory default on 4.1.7 to get 4k sector alignment. As your disks are 4k sector disks if you don't factory default on 4.1.7 write performance will likely be poor.
It would be best to have all four drives hooked up when you do the factory default.
If just one is connected, do a factory default, then hot-add (add while NAS is on) the other disks one at a time, wait for the resync etc. to complete before hot-adding the next disk.
The force expansion add-on is obsolete. It was only useful for systems last factory defaulted on RAIDiator 3.x and won't solve expansion issues for those systems when expanding to use 2TB drives. - is it normal that 4.1.7 takes longer to install on one disk than 3.x?
- I don't know. There's probably a lot more in 4.x which might help explain it.
How much RAM do you have in your 600? - 256MB.
- so, i can't get 4.1.7 to actually install, but i can get the 4x version in the tftp download to install.
new plan...install 4x on a 250gb hard drive, upgrade to 4.1.7, start hot adding the 2tb drives, pull the 250gb, hot add last 2 tb drive. will this work? - i think i found out why it was taking so long. one of my drives was bad.
- That possibly may work you don't factory default on 4.1.7 write performance may be terrible.
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