RAIDar Help

About RAIDar
RAIDar acts as a discovery tool for the NAS devices on your network. Simply plug in your NAS onto the network and start RAIDar. You should see the NAS device(s) listed. If no NAS device is detected , check the following and click Rescan to try again.

  1. Make sure the NAS device is powered up and is connected to your network.
  2. Make sure your client PC running RAIDar is on the same subnet as the NAS device.
  3. If you are running RAIDar on Windows XP before SP2, disable the Internet connection firewall.

 

RAIDar Buttons
Once you see the device listing, highlight a device entry and click on the desired command button at the bottom. The meaning of the buttons are as follows:

Setup Launch the web-based setup utility for the highlighted device. If the highlighted device was in first time installation or factory default process, then launch the setup window to setup RAID mode.
Browse Browse the shares available on the highlighted device.(Only works with Windows XP/2000 Operating Systems)
Rescan Update NAS device list and status.
Locate Blink the LEDs on the NAS device. Useful if you have multiple NAS devices and you need to correlate the RAIDar entries to physical devices.
About Display RAIDar info.
Help Show this help screen.
Exit Exit RAIDar.

RAIDar LED Legend
The first LED column represents the global error status informing you if the NAS device is in normal operating mode, or if it is in some form or warning or failure condition. The follow-on columns display the device-specific status, allowing you to view exactly what devices may need attention. The meaning of the LEDs are as follows (note some LEDs are valid only for disk and volume):

Not present No disk or device attached.
Normal Device in normal operating mode.
Warning or Dead The device has failed or is in a state where it needs attention.
Inactive spare This disk is a spare disk on standby.  If a disk fails, this disk will take over automatically.
Awaiting resync
(blinks if resyncing)		 This disk is waiting to resync to the RAID volume.  If the LED is blinking, this disk is currently resyncing.  During resync process, volume is in degraded mode – performance is effected by the resync process and another disk failure in the volume will render it dead.
Life support mode The volume has encountered multiple disk failures and is in the state of being marked dead.  However, the ReadyNAS has blocked it from being marked dead in the event that someone may have accidentally pulled out the wrong disk during runtime.  If the wrong disk was pulled out, shutdown the ReadyNAS immediately, reconnect the disk, and power-on the ReadyNAS.  If you reconnect the disk during runtime, the ReadyNAS will mark it as a newly added disk and you will no longer be able to access the data on it.
Background task active A lengthy background task such as a system update is in progress.