Thanks Bullitt659, I appreciate the update. When i eventually rolled back to 1.40 i thought i was onto a winner... then that password pops up... I find this so stressful, trouble shooting technology just eats up time and I rely on the device for everything. I' m not really going to miss much data, I was just such a huge advocate of the device with the wife and friends, touting the benefits of mirrored back up, media streaming and all sorts. Even got an UPS box to protect it from blackouts and setup a CAT6 network across the house.
It's funny as I have been banging on about how clever the mirrored RAID array was, then the device fails and not even because a drive failed, but due to firmware! Of course she hasnt followed my instructions and used it purely as the place to save files, now shes nagging as well with looks of 'i told you so'.
I will take a look tommorow as i have some time to review.
My device is the LS-WV4.0. U.K. region. I saw some other people with the same problem, they left a message on my thread. When i rolled back to 1.40 I exsperienced some new error flashes. I think it was error 30, which means error unknown! I will check tommorow. I don't know if the new error flashes are due to the firmware, the amount of messing about that has been going with the device, or constantly interupting bootup to get it into EM mode.
Thanks for the update.