Ok I have configured the LS-WXL unit to having 2 Segate 500mb drives in Raid 1, everything was working find for 1 day then I started getting this message
Drive 1 had too many critical sectors , running in degrade mode ( fine drive 1 failed now only running on drive 2)
BUT the unit now just boots up to EM mode and no matter what I do I cannot get the unit to at least boot up with the single drive.
I had recently upgraded my FW to 1.26 and here is the best part!
Ok the unit is now stuck in EM mode saying UPDATE FIRMWARE OR CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT
so I try and use the FW upgrade utility it goes through all the transferring of all the files and reboots the linkstation etc.. then it comes back with this error!
I reboot and Again all I get is this
My unit is STUCK IN PERPETUAL EM MODE
Please I need help in getting my NAS out of Limbo!!!!!
Is there ANYONE from tech support that reads this forum??
I really need this a fix for this ASAP, I just bought this unit less then 30 days ago and Now I have pretty much lost all my data and I was running your RAID 1
and I thought my previous western digital NAS was bad. I wish I had gone with the linksys instead!
With the information that is present, have you tried using the force firmware procedure? http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-2-of-4-Force-Firmware-update-procedure-please-read-this/td-p/11011 the link provides instructions on how to modify the .ini file and a step by step walkthru to performing this.