Dead disk or broken shell?

[Jtcarsten]

ReadyNAS NV would not boot, replaced disk #4 and everything worked fine. Now RAIDar says disk 3 is dead, so I swapped disk 4 (brand new) with disk 3, and RAIDar still says disk 3 is dead. What's happening?

[mdgm-ntgr]

Did you hot-add (add while NAS is on) the disk to slot 3?

If you go to Status > Logs in Frontview what entries do you see?

If you click Download all logs and look at the disk_smart logs do you see errors with disk 3?

[Jtcarsten]

1. NAS was powered down when I swapped the disk.

2. Severity Date Message
Fri Feb 29 18:05:05 PST 2008 Blinking disk 1

3. Cannot download. Cannot connect to server

Unit has had factory reset. Not yet able to set up. Light for disk 3 is blinking.