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tripy
Oct 14, 2015Aspirant
rn104 updated to 6.4.0 and possible solution to random lock-ups
Hello everyone, I have updated my RN104 last week, and have been poised by the unit hanging up randomly since then. I have searched andread a lot of posts here, and after 5 hard reboot and re-syn...
- Dec 02, 2015
6.4.1 is released. Who is taking the risk? :)
atreyu_ATR
Nov 09, 2015Aspirant
I have since upgraded to 6.4.1-T29 in the hope for more stability. When trasmission and SABNZB aren't running it seems to be stable. Last night i left it running with just transmission and it appeared to be stable, however when I woke up this morning, it had locked up. When im running SABNZB it can lock up within 30 minutes. It appears to be either.
Are there any newer beta's that I can try? or anything new on the horizon?
smashman42
Nov 10, 2015Guide
This update has given me a lot of grief on my 104 as well.
Why on earth haven't Netgear pulled the OTA update to 6.4.0 when they know it's broken? Let people stay on 6.2.4 until 6.4.1 is known to not suck.
Disabling the esata and USB ports, thereby stopping people from backing up when everyone always makes such a big deal of 'RAID isn't backup' was brilliant if I do say so. And making the NAS virtually unaccessable with Windows PCs? I couldn't even cut/copy/paste files, just browsing in Windows Explorer was like I was using VNC over a 56k modem, not my own laptop on Wireless N. Machines on gigabit were no better off either. The only change from 6.2.4 was 6.4.0 so you can't blame this on anyone except Netgear.
Now I'm running 6.4.1-T29 with the antivirus disabled and can finally actually use the NAS again as intended, I think? I'm holding my mouth the 'right' way just in case. Still doesn't shut down properly though, hangs at the last minute so she's running 24/7 now instead of only when needed. Already had drive spin down and IPv6 disabled, jumbo frames is on and hasn't made a notable difference. I can change nothing except the antivirus and boom, she's unusable again. Pretty clear what's broken in my case I guess?
Transmission is and always was fine for me, it was the only thing apart from the web admin interface and RAIDar that did work initially. I use NTI shadow on my windows PCs to back them up and it was having a fit like someone else's drive image software was (Acronis?). The NAS is primary storage for our MythTV setup (using NFS over gigabit) and while it 'still worked', the CPU load was through the roof doing a single recording so the 'Wife Approval Factor' was in the toilet yesterday because she couldn't watch a show while it/another was being recorded like she usually could.
What the hell guys, how the hell did you let this one out in the wild?
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