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I'm finding that occasionally our terastation pro just hangs during nfs copies. We can be copying a 9gb file or 28gb file and the terastation just stops responding. It will still respond to pings but the web interface, samba and nfs all stop responding. Is this a known issue? We are running a single RAID 10 array and have had one bad disk, which I replaced with one that was identical (same part number). The files are oracle backups being copied from our various linux (RHEL 5.x x86_64) servers. When the terastation stops responding, there no leds or messages out of the ordinary and i can cycle through the various screens on the lcd. Normally I just power off/on via yanking the power as the unit doesn't respond to the power button, and on power up the terastation behaves normally... I may evaluate doing the copies over cifs to the samba side as I currently do without issue with our much older terastation. Aside from potentially doing a remote syslog how can I tell what the issue is?

Which firmware version are you running on that NAS? Are you accessing it via IP or NetBIOS name?

Hi, had to wait for it to recover and come online. It is running FW 1.33. I am trying mostly to connect via NFS not netbios/samba/cifs as this is a terastation pro which can do NFS. The clients are all running Centos 5.x x86_64 A typical line in "auto.misc" is: orabackup -fstype=nfs,rw,nosuid,soft x.x.x.x:/mnt/array1/orabackup Until the recent unreliability the terastation had been online for a year with minimal downtime apart from when had to swap out a bad disc. Now it has crashed 5 (five) times in the last 12 days. When I say crashed - I mean absolutely no network connectivity aside from the fact it will reply to pings (we had a two dell poweredge 2850 with duff raid controller drivers do something similar in the past - full on kernel panic but they still responded to pings).