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ReadyNAS 202 is unalive, looking for compatible model so I can salvage disk contents
My old, very old, ReadyNAS 202 (RND-2E FW:V6.3.2) is very much unalive. It was purchased in June of 2016 and died about 3 years later. (3 months and 3 days after the warranty e
There are a handful of tax and business related documents I can't seem to find and suspect there may be backups on the drives from the 202. I've been looking on eBay, etc., for used models but cannot find an exact match.
Is there a resource out there that can help me determine what models may be compatible?
The 202 just doesn't boot at all. No computer recognizes an device being attached so I assume the problem is on the device end and not the drives. I'd be willing to risk a hundred bucks on a used device to find out if the drives are still viable.
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MilesFromShore wrote:
The 202 just doesn't boot at all. No computer recognizes an device being attached so I assume the problem is on the device end and not the drives.That doesn't follow, it could certainly be a drive issue. The NAS boots from the drives.
Start by removing the drives (labeling by slot as you remove them). Then power up the NAS with no disks, and see if RAIDar can find the NAS.
You could also look in your router's attached device list, and see if the NAS is there.
Are you seeing any signs of power when you try to boot the NAS?
Let me rephrase ... didn't boot at all.
Blinking blue LEDs for what seemed like an eternity eventually turning to solid blue.
The device was in a shipping container from Long Beach to Hawaii. Other electronics also failed after the trip. All the drives came with me on the plane.
I picked up a laptop (now dead) and ran the CAT cable straight to the laptop. RAIDar didn't detect. Still nothing but blue lights.
Brought the device to friends and got the same results.
Since then the device has been sitting in a box, about 4 years now. I just pulled it's box out of storage.
It's rusty but does the same blue light scenario when powered up but ... I can't find the drawers and the tape peeled off the drives.
Am I screwed?
MilesFromShore wrote:
I can't find the drawers and the tape peeled off the drives.
So
- no drive trays
- blue LEDS when you boot the NAS up diskless
Does the LED pattern match the "no disks" pattern here:
LED blink behavior for 2 disk systems is three quick blinks of all disk LEDs and the backup LED, followed by an 1s delay, followed by a number of slow blinks. The number of slow blinks will be the error code. Current error codes: 1 - Vendor mismatch 2 - No disks detected 3 - Bad contents on root partition of disks 4 - Flash error 5 - Unsupported RAID configuration
MilesFromShore wrote:
Am I screwed?Not if at least one of the disks is healthy. But you do need the disk trays if you want to try to resurrect your NAS.
- The disk(s) can be mounted in a standard linux system. You can then offload the data. This would be the least expensive optino, but requires the most technical skill. We can give some help here.
- You can also purchase the version of ReclaiMe that supports BTRFS and install that on a Windows PC. That would also let you offload the files.
- You could also get a used ReadyNAS that runs OS-6 firmware. That includes the RN10x, RN2xx RN31x, RN4xx, RN5xx, RN6xx models. You could then insert the disks in those models, and power up - the NAS should boot.
On (3) - Older Ultra and Pro models would also work, though you would need to convert those NAS to OS-6 before you insert your disks.
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