Clearing the 'Dead Disk' error

[Sheaf]

I have a readyNAS duo, it came driveless and I borrowed a 500GB drive to get it going (in bay 1). It's been working fine for a few weeks.

Today the free 500GB Seagate drive arrived from Netgear. I popped it in (bay 2), it syn'd with the drive in there and was working fine. Great.

So, I removed the original drive I borrowed in order to return it.

Ah.

It now comes up saying drive 1 is dead.

How do I remove this error warning and stop the NAS trying to find drive 1 (the green light for drive 1 is constantly flashing)?
I only want to run on one drive for now, the one I got free.

I tried running it in bay 1, however it comes up saying 'corrupt root' as apparently you cant swap bays.

I'm guessing there's a way to clear the error somehow, I just cant see it on frontview.

The NAS is working fine on one drive incidentally, the files are all there etc, it's just saying drive 1 is there and is dead, when it's not there and wont be again.

Cheers.

[mdgm]

I recommend getting another 500GB drive (or greater capacity drive). Your options are to do that, put up with disk 1 showing up as dead, or backup all your data, factory default and then copy data back.

You can't clear this 'error' without doing a factory default. The ReadyNas expects you to replace disks that fail (or are removed).

[phiral]

I went trough the same problem and managed to work around it:

When you add a second disk to a Flex/RAID0 setup the root partition and the swap partition will be mirrored
to the second disk.

The knowledge of the missing disk is stored in 3 places (that i could find), in /etc/frontview/raid.conf the raid config, and
/etc/frontview/volume/hd/hde (in my case) and /etc/frontview/volume/hd/.hdsize the disk details.

raid.conf:

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/dev/md0,root!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc1,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784!!number=1,chan=2,dev=/dev/hde1,model=WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0,sectors=2930260784
/dev/md1,swap!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc2,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784!!number=1,chan=2,dev=/dev/hde2,model=WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0,sectors=2930260784
/dev/md2,C!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc3,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784


You will need to have root ssh enabled on readynas.

So basically remove the second disk from the raid configuration of md0 and md1:

vi /etc/frontview/raid.conf

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/dev/md0,root!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc1,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784
/dev/md1,swap!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc2,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784
/dev/md2,C!!number=0,chan=1,dev=/dev/hdc3,model=Seagate ST31000520AS,sectors=1953508784


Also remove the line corresponding to the old disk from /etc/frontview/volume/hd/.hdsize and delete the
file /etc/frontview/volume/hd/hde (in my case).

The faulty state will stop immediately in frontview, as well the Failing rq 90167bb8 on hde errors in syslog.

I guess it is unnecessary to emphasize how unsupported this is, and its your own responsibility if you loose your data or
your house explodes while doing this