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Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot

shannond100
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Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot

Hi all,

 

I am trying to set up my old RND2000 to use as a network drive for my raspberry pi.  But when it powers up, the leds blink like it is about to boot normally, but enter a continuous loop of disk 1 blinking (once per second) 3 times then three rapid blinks of the power led, act and both hdd status'.  Only 1 disk installed at the moment. I've tried powering it up to get to the boot menu listed here but it is persistent with ^^ that sequence. 

 

I had it running over night with the power led blinking only, thinking it was actually doing something (I installed the disk freshly partitioned and formatted from windows) but I got home from work and it was still doing the same thing.  I powered it down and tried again and got the sequence described above. 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Shannon

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StephenB
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Re: Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot


@shannond100 wrote:

 

I am trying to set up my old RND2000 to use as a network drive for my raspberry pi.  But when it powers up, the leds blink like it is about to boot normally, but enter a continuous loop of disk 1 blinking (once per second) 3 times then three rapid blinks of the power led, act and both hdd status'. 

 


The LED status "decoder" is

1 – Vendor mismatch
2 – No disks detected
3 – Bad contents on root partition of disks
4 – Flash error
5 – Unsupported RAID configuration

You appear to have issue 3 - likely because you formatted the disk in Windows.

 

You can either remove the partitions using the Windows disk manager, or you can do a factory reset via the boot menu.

 


@shannond100 wrote:

Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2)


To remove any doubt here - 

  • If your NAS says "ReadyNAS Duo" on the front panel, then it is the original Duo (called the v1 here).
  • If your NAS says "ReadyNAS Duo v2" on the front panel, then it is the second generation Duo (called the v2 here).

Ignore other labels, they are not relevant when determining the platform you own (and just add confusion).

 

Assuming the Duo v1, instructions on accessing the boot menu are in the hardware manual here (see page 15):

Also, keep in mind that the max disk size supported by the v1 is 2 TB.

 

 

 

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shannond100
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Re: Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot

so, I removed the partitions in disk management... still the same scenario...  The nas seems unresponsive to me pressing the reset button, also.. 

 

I'll have a bit more of a play tomorrow when it's not bed time.

 

Thanks for you help so far. 

 

edit: I should also add that nothing shows up in raidar for it either... only my readynas 104.

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StephenB
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Re: Readynas RND2000 V1 (v2) LED sequence on boot


@shannond100 wrote:

 

edit: I should also add that nothing shows up in raidar for it either... only my readynas 104.


Try powering up with no disks, and see if RAIDar finds the NAS (and confirm that you get the no disks LED code).

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