Blinking power LED on 12T LS-QVL after drive swap and fw update. Plz help!

[reefmo]

Hey all, Thanks for the great info here on the site.

 

I have a refurbished LS-QV12TL/R5 that I bought in January -- I am running in RAID 10 mode. Of course it just left the 90 day waranty period when I got a message from NASnavigator that the drive was in some sort of reduced functionality mode, and the drive 3 light was red (or yellow -- cant remember). I tried to remove that drive from the array I pulled the drive and bought a brand new drive of the exact same type -3TB western digital.

 

I put the drive in, and the LS booted and all 4 drive lights came on green, but the blue power led just blinks rapidly. At first, I thought that maybe it was rebuilding the array or something, but I waited for about 30 hours and nothing happened.

 

Next step was to boot to EM mode and do a force firmware update. The updater worked -- in that it downloaded all of the firmware to the drive, but then it said the drive was rebooting -- which it did - and went back into the blinking blue power led state. During this state, you cannot reach the drive with NAS Navigator2.

 

I went through and tried this several times to no avail. I always end up at the same place -- unable to talk to the drive unless it is in EM mode and the blue light blinking.

 

I tried to do the TFTP thing, but I couldnt get it to boot.

 

What am I missing? What do i need to do to fix the issue?

 

Thanks.

 

Matt

[reefmo]

Ok, I took the new drive from bay 3 out and formatted it as one large NTFS partition and put it back in the ls. Still rapid blue blinking light.  i also tried to put back the old broken drive. Still blnking blue light. What next?

[Musicscramble]

Hi. Did you (or anyone) ever get this resolved?

I have the exact same issue on a LS-QVL/R5.

[Net7]

For lack of a reply to last year's post, the only thing I can think of is the HDD used for replacement isnt supported...

I know that it was hit or miss for WD Red drives (none of my PRE LS400 series units where able to use above 2TB, and even then it was shaky), so as long as its a WD Blue/Black/Green, it should work...

You might need to diskpart clean the new disk, to do that literally google "diskpart clean", follow the directions from sevenforums I think was the site, but PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION, if you chose the WRONG disk and clean it, that data is LOST without another disk and data recovery software like R-Studio!!!



If you post more details about your model and the current drives inside, and state before the drives and after, I might be able to better answer your question.