Eventually, it told me my firmware is 1.34 instead of 18.00 or some other nonsense. I let the drive sit with I21 for at least 24 hours, and then I decided to try forcing the firmware update. 1. Turned it off. Strangely, the off switch has no effect while in EM, I have to unplug it. 2. Hold down the function button for six seconds, turn it on, release function then repress and hold for ten seconds. 3. As soon as I saw the solid blue light (it's solid for about a second or so before it goes to I21), I did the force firmware update, debug mode. Interestingly, the firmware updater only worked if I started it up as soon as the flashing blue stopped. When I tried without restarting, it kept prompting for a password and failing no matter what I typed. I had to use Task manager to shut the updater down. 4. Long process. It copied the firmware in and installed it. At the end of the installation, a message pops up saying it failed, and the flash was aborted. 5. I unplugged it and restarted. Now I get the red one long - six short. E16. NASnavigator would let me start the web access, but the web access never proceeded past the Buffalo logo. 6. After a while, NAS went back to displaying the weird characters for the hostname (ĘÔūT) and suggesting that I update the firmware. What do I do with it now?
