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ReadyNAS Duo v1 not responsive - stuck on RAID resync?
A while ago I got an email from my seven year-old ReadyNAS which has 2 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Hard Drive (WD20EARS): "Access to the disk on channel (??) is producing I/O errors. Although the array is still redundant, please replace this drive as soon as possible, as it is likely to fail soon." I plugged an external USB HDD into it and set a backup job, but the job failed part of the way through so the backup is incomplete. Eventually the ReadyNAS stopped responding (couldn't connect via Finder or access Frontview). I unplugged it and powered it back up. For a while it's responsive and I can access Frontview and see that it is doing a RAID resync (I get an email saying "A SATA reset has been performed on one or more of your disks that may have affected the RAID parity integrity."). However although it seems to be powered up (LEDs, fans, seen by my router and RAIDar) it is again unresponsive and the backup job does not run. RAIDar reports that it is resyncing, but it is stuck at 0.0% (Frontview showed something different before it stopped responding but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I know this model is EOL and long out of warranty. I just want to be able to get my data off it. Can anyone help? If the attempted RAID resync is the issue, should I power it down, pull one of the drives and power it back up? And given that one of the drives is maybe failing, is there any way of knowing which drive I should pull? Grateful for any help you can offer. Thanks, Robert
ReadyNAS Duo RND2000 not booting - no disks detected
My ReadyNAS Duo was working fine yesterday - as far as I know, both disks were OK. I beleive the firmware is up-to-date but has not changed recently. I copied a large number of photos onto it and all seemed well initially but I did not check them as the process too a long time (perhaps longer than usual). Later the device would not shut off as usual so I disconnected and tried to reboot. Various patterns were observed and Raidar was unable to find it. I have seen it with the power light on steady but no other lights. I powered off and removed the disks to try one or two in the two slots. The current sitiuation is that it will not detect disks. Raidar will now find it. Currently the power light is flashing but I can turn it off by holding it down, as usual. It will restart with no disks inserted and can then be discovered using raidar but with useful options greyed out. The power light is flashing and the two LEDs are flashing in a pattern of 2 slow flashes followed by 3 fast ones. Inserting a disk (or two) seems to have little effect. Any ideas? I was thinking about replacement as it's 6 years old and well out of warranty. I'd rather like to be able to access the data!
