My ReadyNAS NV+ is not appearing in RAIDar, but responds to a ping. All 4 disk lights are on solid and the activity light is blinking steadily. I hear an endlessly repeating pattern of a mechanical sounding ka-chick, ka-chick, ka-chick followed by a beep, repeated about 10 times, followed by a different beep sound.
Should I assume that it is stuck in a loop that won't end without my taking action (e.g. reboot), or that it is in the process of attempting to resync data (and I should therefore leave it alone)?
Thanks for any suggestions. The system in question:
I decided it was stuck in a loop, and when I could not get it to power down, pulled the plug and rebooted it. It came back up with just the lights for drives 3 & 4 lit. It appears in RAIDar with drives 1 & 2 described as "Not present".
It sent me this email notification:
***** File system check performed at Sun Aug 30 21:17:47 PDT 2015 ***** fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/c/c Possibly non-existent device?
Now the lights for drives 1 & 2 are alternating blinking. I'm hoping there's some kind of repair process going on, but suspect it would have sent me another notification if such a process had begun. I'll wait and see.
The next day there was no change. Since I was going to be away from the site for some weeks, I powered down the device. I assume that upon my return I will have to investigate the process of drive repair and mount the drives on a PC to troubleshoot their issues.
If you need to retrieve the data because you have no backup then you should contact Netgear support and be prepared to take out a data recovery contract.
