How would I identify what variant(s) of a black Pro 6 I have? And having done that, where can I get the newest bios that allows for use of drives larger than 4TB?
I have two, one is an early Pro Pioneer, and the second was bought used, already updated to 6.10.x.
Following on from your post, it looks like there are two other ways besides an accurate model number sticker.
By CPU, looking at the /proc/cpuinfo, assuming the unit hasn't been mod'ed. The -100 would have "model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz" and the -200 would have (I think) "E5300 2.6Ghz CPU" and a "Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6700 @ 3.20GHz" is a common-ish mod.
Re the bios, I looked into the upgrade bin you linked to, and the check that script is making cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version
and looking for specific strings in the output
"ReadyNAS-NVX-V2", then it's an Ultra 4
"FLAME6-2", then it's an Ultra 6
"FLAME6-MB", then it's what Netgear calls "NV6" and which type of Pro Pioneer/Business/6 variant doesn't seem that important other than to identify the original CPU. This upgrade takes it to "07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0"
"ReadyNAS-ProUltra2", then it's an Ultra 2
at least for the units that this BIOS upgrade applies to, which is not the entire ReadyNAS family
my 626X has "ReadyNAS 526 V2.9" as an example of a unit outside the scope of the BIOS .bin file, and my original Pro Pioneer has "10/03/2008 FLAME6-MB V1.6".
Re the bios, I looked into the upgrade bin you linked to, and the check that script is making cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version
and looking for specific strings in the output
"ReadyNAS-NVX-V2", then it's an Ultra 4
"FLAME6-2", then it's an Ultra 6
"FLAME6-MB", then it's what Netgear calls "NV6" and which type of Pro Pioneer/Business/6 variant doesn't seem that important other than to identify the original CPU. This upgrade takes it to "07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0"
"ReadyNAS-ProUltra2", then it's an Ultra 2
at least for the units that this BIOS upgrade applies to, which is not the entire ReadyNAS family
Well, this is the only bios upgrade package for the ultra/pro ReadyNAS products (and you are correct in thinking it does not apply to the entire ReadyNAS family).
I remember seeing in the forum that there were some very early Pro6 models that are a bit different and can't have the BIOS updated to accept a faster processor. But the BIOS update will simply fail on them, not brick it. But AFAIK, anything with FLAME6-MB V1.6 can be updated to 2.0. There have been posts on how to do the update if you've already converted to OS6, but they are old. Personally, I recommend using a spare drive to downgrade back to 4.2.31, then installing the BIOS update, then re-converting to OS6 with that spare drive.
