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on and it came back up, I had to wait to access

it. The system appeared to regenerate the RAID

5 and RAID 1 volumes.

shutdown and reboot, the

NAS appliance cannot tell

whether one or more

write failures occurred.

Therefore, following the

reboot, the NAS appliance

does a rebuild on all

volumes and regenerates

parity to make sure the

files are consistent.

functioning as designed.

I inserted four new hard drives in the NAS

appliance, and then reinstalled the operating

system. The NAS appliance is up and running,

and the LEDs are showing activity on the system.

However, the NAS appliance does not display in

the Kick-Start utility window.

The last step of the

reinstallation process is to

create the recovery

partition and the data

volume as RAID 5. The

system does not display in

the Kick-Start utility

window until the RAID 5

synchronization is

complete.

Wait until the RAID 5 synchronization is

complete. You can check the current

status of the RAID 5 synchronization by

using the NAS Manager. On the NAS

Manager primary menu, click Disks.

I cannot connect to or ping the NAS appliance

after turning it on.

Hard drives 0 and 1 have

failed or the operating

system files or boot

record are missing or

corrupt.

Use one of two resolutions:

Swap hard disks 0 and 1 with

hard disks 2 and 3. When your

NAS appliance is running, follow

the steps in "

Re-establishing the

Recovery Partition

" in the

"

Advanced Disk and Volume

Management

" section.

Connect a client system to the

NAS appliance using a null-

modem cable. Reboot the NAS

appliance, press , and then

select 2 Factory Default

Settings from the menu. After

the NAS appliance is running,

follow the steps in "

Re-

establishing the Recovery

Partition

" in the "

Advanced Disk

and Volume Management

" section.

After performing the steps in one of the two

procedures in the previous troubleshooting issue

that are required to re-establish the recovery

operating system, I still cannot connect to or

ping the NAS appliance.

Your hard drive main and

recovery mirrors are not

usable.

Perform the steps in "

Reinstalling the

PowerVault 715N Operating System

" in

the "

Advanced Disk and Volume

Management

" section. If you have a

backup of your data, restore it. If a

backup is not available but your data

was in a RAID 5 configuration, follow the

steps in "

Recovering RAID 5 Data After

Reinstalling the Operating System

" in

the "

Advanced Disk and Volume

Management

" section.

After using Terminal Services to connect to my

NAS appliance, I am unable to type using my

native language.

The NAS appliance is set

to English, the default

language.

You can install your native language

character set from the Multilingual

Support CD that was shipped with your

system. For installation instructions, see

"

Advanced Features

."

I cannot get console redirection to work

correctly. Only a few keys work on the keyboard

and none of the keys work when trying to

configure the BIOS.

might be

set on your keyboard.

Ensure the light is turned

off on the keyboard.

I cannot change the WINS addresses when I

click Network on the NAS Manager primary

menu, click Network Interfaces, and then click

WINS in the Tasks list.

The NAS Manager grays

out the WINS Servers

Configuration page

unless you set the IP

Address Configuration

page to Use the

following IP settings.

To set the WINS addresses from the

NAS Manager, click Network on the

primary menu, click Interfaces, click IP

in the Tasks list. On the IP Address

Configuration page, click the radio

button for Use the following IP

settings, and then type the IP

address, Subnet mask, and the

Default gateway in the appropriate