I have tried everything to fix this, but with no luck at all. Basically problem was brought about by a power failure, now the unit boots up and flashes red 6 times. I realise this is a firmware problem. I have tried the TFTP method, and the files were uploaded successfully, but i cannot connect to the linkstation to upload the firmware.
All i get when i run the updater is "linkstation cannot be found" or a similar message. I have tried the debug mode and tried to force the firmware update, but still nothing is found. Computer has no firewalls, and MS security centre is disabled. I have gone through the procedure of connecting directly with an ethernet cable, and although this is the only way the unit will appear in nasnavigator, the updater will not work.
I think the unit is in the EM mode, as the model appears as "LS-CHL-EM2DE". The section of NN where the firmware version would be just reads "------------". To further complicate matters, i'm not even 100% sure which version of the linkstation live i have, as far as i can tell there is a v1 and a v2, but they look the same? I have the updaters for both versions and neither will connect to the linkstation.
Basically i'm at my witts end with the unit. It is chock full of files i cannot afford to use, and it has been a great NAS system. Can anybody help me recover the thing?
Thanks
Charles