This has been an issue for awhile and I have choosen to ignore it but I need to somehow get this resolved. I updated my unit today to latest 4.2.23 firmware and when I rebooted it did not want to come back up. I had to drive in and putz around with it, it is on a big UPs so it rarley if ever gets booted which I think is a good thing.
what I am seeing is 2 different conditions, the one condition is no act lights or disk lights are on only the power light, raidar cannot see it and it cannot be pinged etc. The other condition is that the disk lights along with the power lights are on but no activity lights, same condition, raidar does not see it and yiu cannot ping it etc.
On about the third boot it will boot up fine and be accessible and everything appears to be working, logs are clean on frontview and health and status are all showing good. I need to open a case on it but have not done so yet, it did upgrade the firmware and once up all appears as normal its just the boot process.
I'm a linux guy so if anyone has any idea what log to loog at etc, let me know, in fact I will go look now and see if I can see anything with syslog etc. If anyone has any suggestions let me know, thanks.
Sweet, I updated the bios this morning and with trepidation I shutdown the unit. I woke it backup and low and behold it booted right up. 🙂🙂 First time it has done that so I pushed myluck and did a reboot on it and it also worked, 2 for 2, which I haven't seen before. :shock:
So for whatever the reason it appears to have solved at least my booting issue, I might try to re apply the firmware upgrade just to see if the cycle works but so far so good. Thanks mdgm for the help and the link to the bios update 🙂
