I bought one of these from Dell last week. When I hooked it up and powered it on the power light never stopped blinking so after an hour or so I called tech support. They had me download and install the new 1.34 firmware. At the end of the process, I got this message
"Linkstation has booted up as an emergency mode. Updating may be failure. Please reboot the Linkstation again and confirm it boots up."
The Nav found the device but listed the network as UNKNOWN and always showed the drive in EM mode.
We tried this about 4 times.
It came up in EM mode each time so he had me return it and get another drive. The new one came this AM and it acted the same as the prior one. Again Buffalo tech support had me try the new firmware and had he same results. They told me to get yet another drive.
This is a simple Windows based network with 4 machines all running XP. I tried the process on 2 of the 4 machines just in case some other Anti virus or other software was getting in the way. I find it unlikely that 2 machines in a row would fail the same way but I suppose its possible.
Anyhow they told me to get another machine but I'm not sure how Dell would like that.
Judging from this thread it seems like a firmware issue.
Any thoughts?
David