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ReadyNAS 516
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NEW: v6.6.1 = No Apps, and Inactive Volumes
Good Evening Community and NETGEAR Staff - Needless to say at the moment, I am very frustrated; the ONLY thing that consoles me, is that it seems that I am in NO WAY the ONLY person experiencing issues [ I ALWAYS hate doing updates and this proves me right ]... By now this is not anything NEW - my problems start w/ Inactive Volumes, which leads to ALL of MY DATA suddenly *poof* = GONE; which of course explains why there are NO Apps ( PlexMedia, SickRage, VPN, etc... ) nor do I have the ability to ADD any new ones. After the update ( yesterday ) - everything appeared to come up as expected / normal - it wasnt until today when I was attempting to use PlexMedia that I noticed that the system was none responsive, I also attempted to access my shared network drives and saw that it too wasnt working - as I have in the past I decided to reboot the NAS and get it back ONLINE -little did I know that I was signing my own death certificate. After taking a while to shutdown, waiting for a bit and then cold booting the device - I learned that the system is hosed ( honestly I am hoping that its a buggy OS and that everything is safely in there somewhere otherwise WTF! -apologize but honestly frustration is kicking in )... Looking through the logs, ( like many others ) I too see errors about some files affected with a virus which is funny since the anti-virus app was none responsive after the upgrade ( yes I was prepaired for that, after getting the e-mail informing me - however wasnt that supposed to have occured back in the beggining of Jan' 2017 -here we are in Feb a little back dated or delayed -No? -I figured by now it would've been safe to go back into the water -Never learn ). So like everyone else I will do my best to be patient, and if I wind up having to pay for support - then it better come w/ a Guarantee that they will Recover what has clearly been corrupt by a buggy update.Update RN516 BIOS to support VT-x
After reading the forums, it appears that I need a BIOS udate for my ReadyNAS 516 to support 64-bit VM's since VT-x is not enabled in my current BIOS as my BIOS date is pre 07/03/2013. Here is my bios_ver.log: :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_sku :::::::::::::: RN516 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name :::::::::::::: ReadyNAS 516 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid :::::::::::::: 00890023-D21D-B211-8000-841B5E2740D2 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/board_name :::::::::::::: ReadyNAS 516 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/board_asset_tag :::::::::::::: To be filled by O.E.M. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_serial :::::::::::::: To Be Filled By O.E.M. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_version :::::::::::::: 03/18/2013 ReadyNAS-516 V1.0 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_vendor :::::::::::::: NETGEAR :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias :::::::::::::: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.5:bd03/18/2013:svnNETGEAR:pnReadyNAS516:pvr03/18/2013ReadyNAS-516V1.0:rvnNETGEAR:rnReadyNAS516:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnNETGEAR:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_version :::::::::::::: To Be Filled By O.E.M. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date :::::::::::::: 03/18/2013 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version :::::::::::::: 4.6.5 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial :::::::::::::: <REMOVED BY MODERATOR> :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor :::::::::::::: NETGEAR :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor :::::::::::::: American Megatrends Inc. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/board_serial :::::::::::::: To be filled by O.E.M. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/uevent :::::::::::::: MODALIAS=dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.5:bd03/18/2013:svnNETGEAR:pnReadyNAS516:pvr03/18/2013ReadyNAS-516V1.0:rvnNETGEAR:rnReadyNAS516:rvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:cvnNETGEAR:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_asset_tag :::::::::::::: To Be Filled By O.E.M. :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_type :::::::::::::: 3 :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/board_vendor :::::::::::::: NETGEAR :::::::::::::: /sys/class/dmi/id/board_version :::::::::::::: To be filled by O.E.M. Could I please get an updated BIOS for my unit. Thank you.Solved