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ReadyNas Duo stuck on "system starting up"
I desperately need some help. I bought a used ReadyNAS Duo today. After struggling with the password, I eventually got in, but I couldn’t do much besides changing the password. I wasn’t able to upload files, create folders, or perform any other tasks. I decided to try a factory reset, but that seems to have been a mistake. According to Google, I was supposed to turn it off, hold down the reset button, turn it on, and only release the reset when all LEDs were on, after which I could cycle with the backup. However, every time I tried, only the LED for disk 2 lit up. I repeatedly forced it to shut down by removing the power cable because it didn’t make any sense. I also discovered that to access the admin page, I had to use an old browser, as newer browsers wouldn’t work for some reason. Now, when I start up the NAS, it just says “System starting up” and has been stuck like this for a long time. I only have one HDD installed, and when I checked it on my main PC, it appeared fine, but it was completely empty. Could this be related to the issue? Can someone please help me and tell me what to do? It’s very frustrating to have bought something that now seems completely useless.
Readynas as VM and build-essential
Ok here is a question. Does anyone know if there are any pre-made VM containers with ReadynasOS6 on them, and with build-essentially already installed into them also? Since apt can no longer get access to Netgear's repos...maybe someone had created a VM with that stuff installed and its still lurking out there somewhere? Alternative question, if ReadynasOS is open source is it availble somewhere such that I could create some kind of VM with some form of linux and build the build-essential package from scratch that way and install it into a readynasVM in order to have a place to build certain things to run on my actual readynas. For example, to build newer version of Python3. I have seen some free made readnas VM images floating around and I haven't tried it yet, but wondering if any of them had build-essential also installed into them. Its doubtful unless the VM image was created along time ago before netgear disabled their apt repos.Readynas 316 PSU failing?
My poor 316, which has been rock solid for years, stuttered on power up yesterday. Basically started to power up after pressing power button then shutdown after about 2-3 seconds, did this 3 times. I then removed the power for a few minutes and tried again, successful startup. No issues in logs, no issues with disks. Multiple backups so no great concern about data. I can only think this is a PSU that is beginning to fail so I’ve ordered a new one (there is a seller on eBay UK that sells one that has the correct pinout for my unit. I’ve replaced a PSU on an NV+ which is still going after nearly 20 years and my Ultra 6 is still on it’s original PSU. Without clear evidence that this was a PSU problem I’m not sure whether to leave the existing PSU until there’s a more obvious failure or to replace and hope that there isn’t a more complex problem (like a MB issue) Anyone seen these symptoms before ?New Router = Can't Find RN424 drives
My RN424 is connected to a netgear network switch (GS116), and the switch is connected to a ~20-year-old T-Mobile TM-AC1900 router (rebadged ASUS router), which connects to my DSL modem. This setup has been stable for at least 20 years, has survived power outages, etc. But it is time to move on from DSL. I am attempting to evaluate T-Mobile Wireless Internet, and to that end, I obtained the T-Mobile Internet Gateway. However, when I disconnected the existing router and internet connection from the network switch, and plugged in the wireless gateway, the PC's on the network no longer see the network drive. I can access the internet fine from all wired PC's (after they are rebooted) and via wifi, using the wireless gateway, but my primary PC (W10) now says that the mapped network drives are in use. I assume that the other W10 and W11 PC's on the network are the same, but I haven't checked. I removed the wireless gateway and reverted back to the old router and internet connection, and everything is operating as it was. I am considering connecting the wireless gateway to the old router's WAN port so that the old router, with its network control functions, will still be inline to see if that works, but I thought I'd check for advice here first. After all, I want to retire the old router as well. I am not a network expert, although I did get this all this up and running years ago and have "managed" the network since then. Any advice on how I can remove the old router and install the new network gateway with the least trouble possible?ReadyNAS snapshots
Can anyone please clarify how the snapshots are structured in ReadyNas OS? I see that when I create a snapshot is there in front view. If I have checked the box to "access the snapshot" (for a share), then two new folders show up at the root level of the share. "snapshot" and ".snapshots". .snapshots is totally hidden from ls listing even in ssh, but if I cd to it anyway knowing is there, I can cd into it. It appears to me that .snapshots is meant to be the internal location of hard links to underlying snapshot references, they are numbered 0-9 so far. Then the other snapshot folder that is not hidden is also referencing the same things...but labeled as dates rather then sequential numbers. First I want to understand if I'm understanding that correctly so far? I am trying to setup my idrive backup to ignore those because to idrive, due to hard links, they just look like lots and lots of duplicated data...twice...once for snapshot and once for .snapshots. Still trying to figure out out how to exclude them in Idrive, idrive has an exclusion list, but somehow so far its not excluding them..and it takes a really long time to prep its backup task...I guess scanning through many many more data then necessary. I will probably figure that out eventually, but for now just wanting to understand how the snapshots in Readynas work...in terms of those folders when I have enabled "access" to the snapshots. I wish Readynas had located these access at a different path inside of at the root level of the share, because while readynas is presumably smart enough to ignore that when creating each new snapshot, avoiding recursion.. other tools such as idrive and others, simply see it as a lot of duplicated data. well anyway it is whatever it is, but any clarity on this point would be helpful. thanks.ReadyNAS 626X (RN626X00) S/N 4MD46CEL000F1
Dear Team, yesterday unexpectedly my NAS server stopped working so i rebooted the NAS after it was stuck on booting at 46% and then after long time its booted. but i was not able to access it through admin page. it has 4TB of 4 HDD on RAID5 ,DISK 3 LED is BLINKING. on front display showing resyncing of data 10.95% , 0MB available out off 10.91 TB. in Admin login page following error are showing. VolumeSS.png , AdminPage.png , Volumeerror.png https://autocalsolutionspvt-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/itsupport_autocal_in/ETZ29B5ziRpEjtMymRRTSqgBmuUK_BlopAFlplFza2EP8A?e=JmIOoP https://autocalsolutionspvt-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/itsupport_autocal_in/EXmuAj7Mv6ZDg7C9lNCCzEMBLWSZSEPUM8PqEV-HP8fHXg?e=nirsYEReadyNAS RN1020-100EUS – Cannot detect via RAIDar or default IP after reset/recovery
What I’ve done so far: Tried multiple Ethernet cables. One bad cable was found and replaced. Now connected via the same network (router/switch) as my PC. I have also tried a direct cable from NAS to PC with a static IP, but no change. RAIDar 6.5.0 cannot detect the NAS in any state. Performed a factory default reset using boot menu: Powered off NAS Held SYS/Reset while powering on → LED blinked then went solid Pressed Backup until only Disk 1 LED was lit Pressed Reset again → NAS LEDs alternated between Power, Disks 1 & 2, and Backup for about 20 minutes Eventually LEDs stopped alternating — now Power + ACT + Disk 1 + Disk 2 are all solid With all 4 LEDs solid, the NAS appears “ready,” but I cannot access it and RAIDar still does not see it. Also attempted: USB Recovery with rear port: Built USB manually from a YouTube tutorial (may not have been official RN1020 package) Booted doing same procedure as default reset but selected disk led 2 instead. RAIDar still did not detect Tried boot menu without USB: Fast blink → Solid blue → no detection. Drives installed: Two Toshiba N300 NAS 4TB (both inserted during factory reset). Current state: Power + ACT + Disk 1 + Disk 2 solid blue No web UI on default IP 192.168.168.168 whether direct-connected or via network RAIDar cannot find NAS Any ideas on this would be greatly appriciated Thanks in advance.
