Well, when I got home from work today to try the above, I discovered tha that the Linkstation Mini Duo now has a solid red light, no fan moving, I have powercycled it a couple of times to no effect. I have removed and reseated both drives. I failed to mention that they were in a Raid 1 configuration in my first post. I have no idea what to do next.
I am inclined to remove the HDDs and try to mount them to a lInux box to see what shape the drives are in. Are there any tricks to doing this?