Hi there,
i had the same problem with an Linkstation Mini 2 x 500MB. After an update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 with no error messages the station came up with 6 blinks. I called the support and they said, this must be an harddisk error. I use the station with mirroring, so it should boot or go into EM with one disk. But nothing was possible.
Because i used the LS for an important data backup i had to retrieve the data. RMA with preserving the data was not possible in germany. So i opened the LS as described in different wikis. Then i connected both drives to a vmware linux system. Both drives were ok, no hardware error!
After mounting the filesystems i retrieved all my data. Now i think during this firmware update the boot partition of the LS was corrupted, same problem is described from other users in the web during firmware update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 .
Now my question: Because i lost my warranty i need a hint to take the firmware files initrd.img, hdrootfs.img etc. and extract them tothe mounted partitions in a linux environment.
I think this should be possible. Because i saved all my data, i am able to init the hard disks or set them in an initial state with some tools. Buffalo Germany won't helpme, because i had to open the case. But i thin, a linkstationwith mirrored driveshas to be recoverable in some way without loosing all data.
Thanks for your help!
Regards, Roger