ReadyNAS Duo firmware upgrade

My ReadyNas Duo has been running on 4.1.8 for months and I can see the titles.... it doesn't sound like a firmware issue to me. I'm not sure what else to suggest though.....

Have you allowed it time to scan and build the library, upnp takes a while to get its crap together!

Sounds to me as though your files aren't correctly tagged. You can use a program called mp3tag to check the files and make sure they the tags are correctly filled out.

Thanks all. The ReadyNAS has more or less started working now. I had to create a new folder as it most certainly didn't like the shares root 'music' folder (or maybe that's just me being impatient?).

The Iomega displayed a 'TitlWhitman which very conveniently listed all the songs in alphabetical order regardless of performer. The ReadyNAS produces a folder called 'All Music' which appears to offer asomewhat more confusing list which includes artist AND song (ie everything!). I didn't realise UPNP was so variable. I chose the Netgear for its reliability but I have to say the Iomega (despite doubts about its ultimate reliability) did present the files a little more elegantly.

I've been using a Readynas Duo for a couple of years or so with my Squeezebox 3. For the most it has worked fine BUT I have had two instances of hard drive failure that have NOT been easy to solve - thankfully I've kept backups more or less up to date - and I would not say that the Duo is especially reliable!! Two things which have helped are an UPS and upgrading the Duo's memory from the standard 250mb to 1024mb.

Are you suggesting that the hard drive failure was caused by the Readynas?

Gerry

The first time wasn't a clear hard disk failure but a corrupt route on the Duo that Netgear couldn't get to the bottom of. All data on both disks became unaccessible, as did the the Duo itself. Netgear offered to replace the drive that came with the Duo if that proved to be faulty, but the second drive came 'free' as a bundle deal and Netgear said I had to go to the retailer for support on that! (and they were cagey as to the compayibility of the second drive...) Both drives seemed ok when tested with Seatools and Samsung test programs in a pc, but Netgear was adamant the Duo not at fault!

As you can probably tell it was a bit of a nightmare! I replaced both disks myself, upgraded the memory and started from scratch. I figured if it didn't work I still had two new 1tb drives so only the relatively cheap memory stick was lost. At no time did the error logs ever show the original discs to failing. Anyway all worked ok until error logs showed one of my new discs to be accumulating bad sectors. I shut the Duo down and returned the disc to Seagate. At the same time I sent the original Seagate disc that came with the Duo and Seagate replaced both with no hassel. At this point I aquired the UPS (tech guy at work recommended this route) and no problems since. Watch this space??

Nich

Thanks Nich, the addition of a UPS is my next move. I believe you have to get a Readynas compatible one. Which UPS have you bought?

Gerry

Sorry for the late reply - my UPS is a APC BACK-UPS ES 550 which can be monitored by the Duo with a usb connection. It can have 8 devices plugged in iirc and 3 are switched by the power up / power down of a primary device (so turning eg your computer on or off will do likewise to the monitor, powered speakers, and scanner).

I've no direct experience of any alternatives but it seems vfm and does it's job by keeping the Duo powered for ~ 25 mins and shutting it down in a controlled manner (no data loss) at the end of that period if mains power is not restored.

Thanks Nich I will put that on my shopping list.

Gerry

Umm...I believe those APC units do 4 Surge only and 4 UPS+Surge so although there are 8 sockets only 4 have UPS on them usually.

Regards,
Frank.
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All very useful and thanks - The Netgear NAS (with a new quiet fan) seems solid thus far although I still don't like the way it presents the 'All songs' menu - though I am not using this much frankly.

I have a couple of other NAS devices (by different manufacturers) for various reasons and both are tolerant of sudden power failure. I am wondering whether the problems reportd have as much to do with the drives fitted as the Netgear hardware/Firmware itself? Netgear do state that the device is tolerant of sudden power off so I suspect this is the case.

A UPS isn't a bad idea but I am wondering how necessary it really is.