7700 and WD RE4-GP (WD2002FYPS)

[doubeld1979]

Firmware 04.05G05 found http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?...14246&start=80

second post

How is going to update?

[philhu]

It requires a boot floppy and a cd with the bin and exe on it

Boot the floppy, run the pgm on the cd

In my dell raid, i am doing the fw upgrade one at a time, let the raid rebuild (Raid-6), and do the next

One a day.

[patrickc63]

I just had 2 days ago an answer from thecus

"Dear Sir,

Thanks for your mail.
We strongly recommended backing up all of your data to an outside source. And then switch to either Hitachi or Seagate 2TB drives as listed on Thecus compatibility list. "

is any chance this new firmware could be a solution for my n7700 with 7 wd 2tb entreprise ???


Anybody try this already ?

thanks for sharing

[gosi]

well, I understand Thecus point on this, but well, for those people who already have the drives, I guess this isn´t nice at all

There are a few things I came up that might help:

Disable the power management of the drives within the web UI. If that doesn´t help, install the ssh and sysuser mod from thecus wiki and run that command for every drive in your array:

hdparm -B 254 -S 0 /dev/sda
etc.

That disables the power and accoustic managemnt, I suppose that should also help with drives flying out of the array. I do have a Thecus 5200Pro and a 7700 but not this type of HDD so I cannot try myself, but it is something that might work ...

Also before you do fiddle around with the modules and hdparm, backup your data! Better safe then sorry

[patrickc63]

well still hard for me to understand how the upgrade of my hhd re4,
boot on the floppy: can i use hiren boot cd 10 and witch utility
run the program on the cd: whatdo i type only the program name or sort of command c:/...

Sorry, really nearby, but a little help for this so i can test with the new software

thanks for sharing

[doubeld1979]

i tried everything to update the firmware, i am still looking for the right step...

damn old school floppys

edit found a HP usb tool to boot from usb stick

i now have updated all of my 4 drives with the 04.05G05 firmware and my thecus n7700 has the 3.00.07a hope this works for me!

[doubeld1979]

Updated to 3.0.0.8 still having problems!

On Qnap Forum i read about disabling NQC on your drives!

Somebody Tried this? I dont know how?!

UPDATE: I read also to jumper pin 5-6 on WD2002FYPS, i have done this, no drop out yet 2 days running! Maybee is this the final fix!