Just released – RAIDiator 4.2.9 (x86)

January 25, 2010

NETGEAR is pleased to announce the release of RAIDiator 4.2.9 (x86), an update firmware for the ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition, Pro Pioneer, NVX, NVX Pioneer, 2100, and 3200 network attached storage product lines.  This release addresses a problem introduced in RAIDiator 4.2.8 that can cause a drive on the ReadyNAS NVX and 2100 platforms to hang, causing a failure condition, and we urge you to apply this update to avoid hitting this condition.

The simplest way to update is to use the System/Update/Remote tab in Frontview. If you prefer, you can choose to do a local update by first downloading the new image here: RAIDiator-x86-4.2.9. We recommend that you update your ReadyNAS to this latest RAIDiator release to ensure your ReadyNAS is running with all the latest bug fixes and enhancements.

Please be warned that once you upgrade to 4.2.9, you cannot downgrade back to 4.2.5 or prior releases.

The following are changes since RAIDiator 4.2.8.

New features

1. Add ReadyDLNA playlist support.
2. Updated to ReadyNAS Vault to 2.0.9.

Bug fixes

1. Fixed issue where disks on NVX/2100 where disks may be subjected to hang due to increased monitoring.
2. Fixed support for Win2K with Active Directory.
3. Fixed support Windows 7 where a very large number of files are copied to the ReadyNAS.
4. Fixed FTP memory leak.
5. Fixed User and Group account table slider in domain mode.
6. Fixed javascript error in FrontView.
7. Fixed possible Out-of-Memory condition during disk scrubbing.

Limitations

1. Starting with 4.2.7, IE 6 is no longer supported. Please update to IE 7 or 8.
2. Volume expansion will not work beyond 16 TB. To support 16 TB or greater, you’ll have to factory default with that capacity in place.
3. Permission errors of files downloaded from the Internet can occur when accessing home shares over AFP with Snow Leopard.  If you encounter this, you can install the add-on Toggle_AFP_SL_Compat_Homes_0.1-x86.bin to avoid this error.
4. HP iSCSI initiator is not supported with the default iSCSI initiator.  If you wish to use this initiator, you can switch back to the legacy iSCSI target server in RAIDiator 4.2.5 by installing the add-on Toggle_iSCSI_Server_0.2-x86.bin.
5. iSCSI targets with colons in their names currently do not work with CHAP authentication.
6. Existing iSCSI targets on RN3200 will not be able to expand, next firmware release will resolve this.
7. Snapshot resizing has been disabled in the release.  We will re-enable this feature in a future update.
8. If you have installed super-poussin‘s PHP5GD community add-on, you will need to install the patch here before updating to RAIDiator 4.2.9 and then install the PHP5GD add-on again.