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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

obaeyens
Aspirant

Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

I do not recall the orange blinking led yet on my ReadyNas 104 with the previous firmware.

 

I swapped the cable with the 204 (previous firmware) but it stays orange blinking while the 204 shows green blinking.

 

I read somewhere that orange means 10 Mbps network!

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

What is your router telling you?

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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Hello obaeyens,

 

Green off, amber blinking means 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps connection speed, this depends on the LAN port on the router/switch where the NAS is plugged in. If the router doesn't have gigabit ports then the NAS will not get gigabit speed.

 

Like StephenB mentioned, check the router. You may also try testing the other LAN port on the NAS since there are 2 LAN ports on it.

 

Regards,

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obaeyens
Aspirant

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Wel that is the interesting part. It was green before the 6.4.0 firware upgrade.

 

I have a 104 and 204 connected to both the same 1 GB switch.

I swaped both 104 and 204 cables the amber persists and I even tried the other network card, it stays abmber.

 

I only saw this after the v6.4.0 firmware update on the 104. Nothing else changed.

For me it is not a breaking issue, but it indicates something in the firmware 6.4.0.

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StephenB
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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

And what does your router say the link speed actually is?

 

If you have ssh enabled, you can also confirm the link speed on the NAS.

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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Hello obaeyens,

 

How about the RN204 NIC led?

 

Have you also already tried on another NIC of the RN104?

 

Regards,

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shydoody
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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Same here.

After upgrading ReadyNAS104 to 6.4.0 the LED's are blinking orange.

Transferring Data to PC is about 850 MB/s anyway, so it's GBit.

I think, here are just the wrong LED'S adressed.

 

After ugrading my ReadyNAS314 to 6.4.0, here it's blinking in green, as before (6.2.4).

 

 

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obaeyens
Aspirant

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

The switch at Netgear GS108 has 2 green LED's, but the 104 has this left amber right green.

 

The interesting thing is that on the 104 the blinking led is on the left (which is amber) while on the 204 the blinking is on the right. (seen from behind). 

 

Now that I notice the NAS network adapter web page has Eth0 on the left side for the 104, while the 204 has the eth0 on the right side. So the upper connector is upside down compared between them.

 

Someone flipped a bit 😉

 

 

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obaeyens
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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Sorry worded incorrectly.

 

The NAS network web page is left eth0, right eth1

But when I connect to the upper connector on both the 104 and 204, then the upper is eth1 on the 204 and eth0 on the 104.

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Is this a GS108T?  If so, its web page will tell you the negotiated speed (and give you packet statistics for the port)

 

Also - did you try rebooting the switch?

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obaeyens
Aspirant

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Just a 108GS

 

I tried everything (swape cables, reboot the switch, the NAS, other network connector....) but before the firmware upgrade the NAS 104 showed 2 green leds one blinking. Now the blinking one is amber.

 

The switch shows 2 green leds which suggest me that it is a wrong bit set to the 104 NAS and incorrectly shows an orange LED instead of a green.

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StephenB
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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)


@obaeyens wrote:
 

The switch shows 2 green leds which suggest me that it is a wrong bit set to the 104 NAS and incorrectly shows an orange LED instead of a green.


If you are saying the leds are simply wrong, then you could well be right.  

 

One way to check is to test the NAS read/write speeds.  You could use nastester for that http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance.  RN104 read speed is normally ~70MB/s and write is ~50 MB/s - over gigabit ethernet.

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obaeyens
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Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

Just tested

 

The Write 45 MB/s

The read 40 MB/s

 

However these are older recycled hard disks!!!!

 

The fact that I can read and write at this speed means that I at least have 100 Mbs and thus is the amber LED incorrect and should be green.

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)


@obaeyens wrote:

Just tested

 

The Write 45 MB/s

The read 40 MB/s

 

However these are older recycled hard disks!!!!

 

The fact that I can read and write at this speed means that I at least have 100 Mbs and thus is the amber LED incorrect and should be green.


You'd max out at 10-11 MB/s for 100 mbits.  So you are getting gigabit.

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obaeyens
Aspirant

Re: Firmware 6.4.0 on ReadyNas 104 (orange blinking network led)

I just upgraded the 204 to OS6.4.0 and here I correctly see the green LED.

 

Interesting is that the network card is upside down between the 104 and 204. The same for the network blinker led that is swapped from left to right (because the board is upside down I guess)

 

I also just notice that the 104 amber LED is mostly off and sometimes blnks on.

But the 204 green LED is mostly on and sometimes blinks off and is consistant with the Netgear switch LED's.

 

If I have a lucky guess then either you have a LSB-MSB situation, or an inverted byte. 😉

 

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