Storage

[PRPechek]

Friends,

Here is how things stand right now with compatibility issues between our products and OS Lion in regards to Time Machine:

LinkStation:

We have sped up the vetting and QA process that we usually go through when releasing firmware revisions to get you an update to get you all up and running.  Note that this is a BETA release and there maybe bugs that we have not had time to iron out yet.  So please be aware.  Here is the link to the update:

http://www.buffalotech.com/support/getfile/ls_series-153beta_fwmac.dmg.zip

And the How-to:

http://www.buffalotech.com/support/getfile/ls_series-153beta_fwmac_en.txt

This only works with the following LinkStation products: LS-XHL, LS-CHL, LS-WXL, LS-WSXL, LS-VL, LS-WVL, LS-QVL, LS-XL Series

BTW this update now allows you to backup multiple Macs using Time Machine to the LinkStation instead of only one.

CloudStor:

The CloudStor will not get an update to resolve this issue until August 29th, and I am sorry about that.  I will however tell you why (and also give you a sneak peek).  We have been developing an update to the CloudStor with a host of really cool new features.  Because we are a month away from updating the whole firmware package, the engineers are unable to put out a Beta because there would be a whole host of things that would no longer work or work poorly.  Here are a couple of things that will go into the new firmware to, hopefully, hold you over:

RSS support for BitTorrent

New GUI

Private and Public Shares

Designate Multiple Users

USB Drive Support

TeraStations:

We will have a new updates starting late August, we will most likely not have beta firmware as these are Business grade units and as such their firmware gets extensive testing.

Regards,

Jay Pechek

Public Relations Manager

Buffalo Technology

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[ajreynolds23]

Jay,

I understand that these are beta releases for certain versions of the Linkstation series.   Do you have any information on other models being supported once this firmware is launched out of beta? Specifically, a few of use on the original thread were asking about LS-QL models....the Quad models before the LS-QVL.

Thanks,

Allan

[PRPechek]

Allen,

I believe they will push some updates after the current LinkStations model firmware is done. I will see if I can get the list.

Jay

[ajreynolds23]

Thanks Jay !

[mzeecedric]

Hi Jay,

good to see you responding, thanx alot. Hope the LS-WTGL is on your list as well. 

Cedric

[ronaldpowers]

Just updates to 1.53. update went well but know I can't sign back on. when I try to acces using IP address I get the sign on page but it is not in english and it will not accept my log on info. I can access the info on the harddrive at least that works, I have a LS-CHL1.5.

[brian_nathaniel]

Reset the unit and sign in using "admin" for user name and "password" for password.  Keep in mind that the IP address may change after resetting (all of your data and other configuration will remain untouched).

To change the language back to English:

After logging in, click on the 4th menu option (see page 20 of the user's manual for reference).

Once that loads, you will see three red bars below - below the last bar there is a button, which you will need to click.

The top drop-down menu in this section will allow you to select your language.  After choosing "English", click the button on the bottom left of this section to apply the settings.  Once they have been applied, close out of your browser, then try to log back in.

You should see that the log in page is in English, as will be the rest of the GUI.

[PRPechek]

Allen and Cedric,

LightKid in the other thread posted this:

http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/Mac-OS-10-7-Lion-can-t-connect-with-LinkStation-LS-WX2-0TL-...

It looks like a hack for Lion itself that might be able to get you up and running until Buffalo can get your product's firmware updated.

Legalish Note: as an official Buffalo representitive, I am in no way recommending this to you. I am just informing you that  this post exists. Buffalo advises users not to "hack" or modify thier operating systems in anyway even if I, personally, may have done this last night at my house (After I made a full system backup to my portable HDD) and it seemed to work perfectly.  Again Buffalo recomends that you wait.

Regards,

Jay Pechek

Public Relations Manager

Buffalo Technology

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11100 Metric Blvd Ste. 750 | Austin, TX 78758

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[ajreynolds23]

Jay,

Thanks for the heads up.  I'm really not interested in the workarounds.   I am willing to wait, as long as I know I have confirmation my model, LS-QL , will have a firmware update.  

If a  firmware update won't be available, I'll have to reconsider my purchase.   I do like my Buffalo, and don't want to get rid of it, I hope it can stil be useful to me. 

Thanks again for the updates,

Allan

[tarbob]

Are there any plans to support the HD series? (speficially LinkStation 250GB 1Gb Ethernet - HD-H250LAN)