One of our ReadyNAS Pro 6 refused to update its firmware (called RAIDiator) to 4.2.24 (the latest as of writing) no matter how I tried. Neither local or automatic updates had any success; reinstalling the OS through the boot menu and updating, as suggested by someone on the forum, did not work either.
Thankfully the attempts did not break anything in the system. Each time either one of these notifications were shown after reboot:
- “Problem encountered while updating your ReadyNAS device”.
- “Firmware update failed verifying flash”.
Eventually I found a solution in this post by dbott67 on the Netgear ReadyNAS forum (the solution requires SSH access).
The exact commands I’ve used to update RAIDiator to version 4.2.24:
cd /tmp wget http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RNDU2000/RAIDiator-x86-4.2.24.zip tar -xvf RAIDiator-x86-4.2.24.zip echo RAIDiator-x86-4.2.24 > /.cf_update_in_progress reboot
It worked perfectly. Why? I have no idea. Please use at your own risk.
All kudos goes to David Bott (dbott67).
Hello, I have a readydata 516 that failed and I was able to convert it into readynas 516, but of course I would like to put the readydata back.
I had to do it because there is no USB recovery tool for readydata
I have tried what you say and it does not work to change the firmware completely.