Hi everyone,
I've bought a LS-XHL Linkstation pro 2TB from the internet, and set it up yesterday.
Everything went very well and I was very pleased with the device. I downloaded a couple of movies using the bittorrent client, and during the evening I was watching one of them on my LG-DP1W media streamer via DLNA.
After about 15 to 20 minutes playing the movie, it suddenly stopped playing. I restarted the streamer and wasn't able to connect to the LS-XHL at all. I tried connecting through my win7 pc, but the NasNavigator nor the webgui was accessible. I went to take a look at the device, which I planted in a cabinet, to find out the LED was flickering blue infinitely. I decided to turn it off but, just as mentioned by many people on the internet, it wouldn't shut down.
So I pulled the plug and waited for complete silence and then I turned it back on. Sadly the device wasn't able to boot for the LED began flickering blue again. I was hoping that this had something to do with some kind of checkdisk service, so I left it doing whatever it was doing overnight. Expecting to see it up and running again, I was disappointed to find out it was still in the state I left it in.
A couple of tries didn't solve the problem, so I decided to look further. I've managed, after 20 times pulling the plug, to get the LED to solid blue state. Now I'm trying to reflash my firmware with LSupdater. It says it's transferring the firmware, but it's going insanely slow.. at least 10x slower than last time I've updated the firmware. I'm waiting for it to finish, but I feel this isn't going to end well... I'll let you guys know.
Anyway.. is there a known cause for this? I certainly don't want this to happen again, if I manage to get this fixed at all that is.... I was running stock firmware ls_series-156, same firmware I'm trying to restore now. Bittorrent client was active, also downloading in the background I guess, would this have anything to do with the device screwing up? I'll keep you updated on my progress.
Edit:
If I'm able to get any logs on this event I'll share it, but I think that the firmware update will erase this. In that case I'll do so if it happens again.
Update:
After SLupdater finished, it said it had failed to get a response or something like that.. mentioning something about windows firewall. I'm certain everything is off and connected the right way.. 200%. The device did nothing, showing a solid blue light. I pulled the plug to reboot manually, and after that it suddenly flashed orange a couple of times followed but rapid blue flashes. The device rebooted itself, and now it's back to flashing blue infinitely.. :'(
Should I try the full procedure again? Or should I flash an older firmware (I personally don't think that would help though...). I don't want to lose my files, so I didn't do a partion table rebuild, I could try that as an ultimate last resort I guess..
Any comments / advise on this would be greatly appreciated.