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Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:36 am
by gbeer7
Hi,

In the past month i've had this issue with my Qnap ts-110 NAS not seeing external drives but it does give them power. Qnap have advised to down grade my firmware, which i did and made no differance. Qnap are now saying its a usb issue (I've told them it powers the external harddrive) or my media server os. How can Twonky stop external drives showing up on QNAP ? They are telling me to rebuild it, but i don't really want to, seems very extreme.

Anyone have any advice (Please!!) ?

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:20 pm
by gbeer7
Can anyone offer any help please ?

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:22 pm
by phibertron
I don't think the issue is with twonky at all
The only thing that might be related would be to check the sleep setting on the NAS
and then check to see what Twonky has set for sleep

this is what it looks like in the twonkyserver.ini
# set to 1 to prevent server entering sleep mode
disablesleepmode=0
You can view what it is currently set to with an rpc call

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http://x.x.x.x:9000/rpc/get_option?disablesleepmode
You can also set it with this command

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http://x.x.x.x:9000/rpc/set_option?disablesleepmode=0
Outside of that, there isn't anything that I can think of that would cause the issue

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:06 pm
by gbeer7
Hi phibertron,

Thank you so much for replying. I checked with the following, "http://192.168.0.7:9000/rpc/get_option?disablesleepmode"
and it is set to 0.

This is what QNAP support have said,

"Hi Graham,
There is a "?" in the end of my words.
In your case, since the external disk can works before, thus I don't think it's the compatibility issue which we usually have.
Firmware downgrade still can not recover this issue, then it possible the
1. External disk file format issue? No. since you refomrat it but still no luck.
2. NAS OS issue, possible and would you mind to reinitialize the NAS disk and reinstall a new NAS OS. Or find a new disk to intall a new NAS OS to test?
3. The hardware issue, possible.
That's all the possibilities."

It last worked on the 13th September this year. I don't get my its not seeing exernal device through QNAP backup.

How can i check the sleep setting on the NAS itself ? It gives power from the USB device, but says its not connected.

Stressing me out to be honest, i want to back up my data. Can't see it being a drive fault and concerned it might have damaged any files.

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:10 pm
by phibertron
the first thing you need to determine is does the disk work somewhere else
no point in just doing it on the nas

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:16 pm
by gbeer7
so both external drives i am using work fine when i plug them into my laptop. Spin up fine. In fact i've tried 3 external drives and all ok on my laptop.

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:36 pm
by phibertron
It sounds like the issue is the qnap os

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:03 pm
by gbeer7
So would that be the firmware ?

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:57 pm
by phibertron
yes, or its remotely possible that its hardware related on the nas mobo in some way

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:26 am
by gbeer7
So I did downgrade the firmware to 3.8.3 and made no differance. My data files should be fine then ?
Might do a copy backup and think about upgrading the NAS.

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:23 pm
by phibertron
bummer
I'd assume that they are, but I would check them before upgrading

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:21 pm
by gbeer7
Shall i do a for hardware scan on the drive to make sure they are ok ? I have previous backups but worried it might have copied any problems over. Really making me anxious.

Re: Help ! Qnap telling me its a Twonky issue

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:28 pm
by phibertron
I would just in case
I know you have usb issue at the moment
but a nas isn't really backup, it can deal with most hardware failures, raid and such
I copy important stuff into cold storage, I actually use two disks, one for current backups, one for previous backups
and then I toggle them, so that I always have a previous backup just in case