The best advice I can give is to return this piece of **bleep** and get a different brand NAS.
I had the same problem with two brand new LS-WVL devices. Would not boot straight out of the box, takes 10,000 minutes (over a week) to intialise RAID, drives keep dropping out and so on.
Toss this in the bin/get a refund and get another brand altogether.
These forums are littered with users having similar boot issues straight out of the box. Running through the whole TFTP thing, 'FAQ' this and that is just a waste of time.
You'll spend hours getting it up and running, but that's just the start of the issues. A few days later the drives will go offline, unplug, replug, rebuild (one week), then wash rinse and repeat just for fun.
So far my experience with two brand new LS-WVL with two brand new drives in each has been:
- Device would not boot right out of the box. Was stuck in 'Emergency Mode'
- Would not firmware update. Used all sorts of trickery (and help from these forums) to finally force firmware update
- Setup RAID1 - I think I recall it took about 2-4 days to initialize
- After I moved 2TB of data onto it (about 3 days or so), the RAID fell over (1 drive showed 'error')
- Took 7 days to backup to USB!!! (next time I'll attached the USB to my PC and backup over the network - faster than the inbuilt backup)
- Started rebuild of array. This took 7 days!!!
- After rebuild completed the unit was locking up so I rebooted it
- Immediately after reboot drive 2 showed an error!
I just deleted the RAID array and thought I'd restart.
Now when I create a new array it tells me it will take about 9500 minutes to check/initialize. I have rebooted the device, pulled out the drives, deleted the RAID array (again) and it still estimates 9000-10000 minutes.
Is this normal for this NAS?
The raid rebuilt after 7-8 days, but then a day or so later a drive would go offline and I'd just have to do it all over again.