I upgraded the hard disk in my LS-CHL (LS-CH1.OTL-EU) Buffalo, from 1TB to 2TB Western Digial Caviar Green drive.
My Buffalo has the latest firmware on it (v1.37) and was previously working perfectly.
I followed the directions on how to go about using TFTP to upload the firmware onto a new drive
http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/FAQ-3-of-5-TFTP-boot-procedure-please-read-this/m-p/11015
History Lesson:
We moved to Australia and there are no Buffalo Link Station agents in Australia, so I was forced to buy a 2TB Netgear Duo NAS when my Buffalo ran out of disk space.
However, as it turns out, the Netgear Duo NAS completely sucks, and hence I have stripped out the bigger 2TB drive and want to put it into my much loved Buffalo.
I used the 2TB drive and formatted it, in Ubuntu 10.10, into XFS format (as per http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/LS-CHL-hard-disk-replace/td-p/18071/page/2 )
I used the Disk Utility tool to format and partition the drive, but am not 100% sure of which of the various settings to use (stuff like drive lable? Format the MBR?)
I have two NICs on my Windows Vista machine, 1x cable (192.168.11.1) and 1x Wifi (another IP). I removed the drive from my machine and plugged it into the Buffalo's cradle, and connected the LAN and power cables. I configured the NIC correctly to 192.168.11.1 (evidence of the network being fine, can be seen by the TFTP server working, so I am not worried about that).
I downloaded the "TFTP Boot Recovery LS-CHL 1.06" software, set the home directory in the TFTPServerMT.ini file and proceeded to attempt to get the box to boot using the steps provided in the TFTP Boot Procedure pages. Eventhough the guide's steps did not 100% match the behaviour of the system (flashing lights, green lights) etc, I was able to get the E06 error light. When pushing down the function button for a few seconds, I was able to see the requests for the 2x files via the TFTP server tool (TFTPServerMT) .
The blue light flashes continuously, but the drive is unable to be seen in the NasNavigator. Even after several hours.
I attempted to put the NasNavigator into the debug mode by changing the variables in the LSUpdater.ini file. This too did not help, since the NAS could not be seen.
Following this, I searched for help and found: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Revive_your_arm9_box_from_scratch
I download version 1.37 of the latest software, renamed the initrd.img to initrd.zip, unzipped the file (using the correct password) and put the initrd.buffalo file into the same directory as the other files required for TFP operations. After the TFTP transferring process, the blue light just flashes continuously and NasNavigator is still not able to find the NAS.
It appears the:
- 2.0TB drive is working correctly,
- the network connections,
- the Buffalo circuitry are working correctly.
Can you please advise me how can I go about fixing my Buffalo please?
Regards
Buffalo-Lover!