I posted in another thread, but this issue has taken a rather bizarre turn so I thought it deserved it's own thread.
Yesterday I came in to work to find that the TeraStation has a red error light on the console and says "E14 Cannot mount RAID Array1".
I check the drives I have mapped and I can access that array just fine. I browse a few folders, open a couple files, everything seems fine.
After doing some searching for a condition like this, I find no results (which indicate the error, yet no problem), I see nothing in the system or file logs indicating a problem, I figure I should restart.
I shut down the TeraStation and restart it. No error light and things still look fine.
This morning, same thing. Red error light, same error, yet I can still access everything just fine. I try to initiate a shutdown, but I can't get past the login screen on the browser interface. This seems odd. I try a different computer; same problem.
I hold the power button on the TeraStation until it says it's shutting down. I power it back up. It takes a little longer then I get "E04 Can't Load KRNL". Just to be sure, I power it off and restart, but I get the same error.
I download all the stuff and a handy instruction guide for fixing via TFTP (http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&message.id=4820&query.id=957#M4820). I attempt to boot to EM mode. It says it's starting to boot EM mode. I turn my back to prep the workstation's IP address and everything and get the TFTP Boot running.
I turn back around, the NAS is up and running with it's normal IP and there are no indications on the display that it's in EM mode. I check the network and once again all the shares and data are accessible.
What Gives?
Same thing AGAIN this morning. I can use the browser to see the system status. System Log is clear of errors.
I'm just going to let it ride for a week. It's being actively backed up so I'm not worried about losing data. If it continues into next week I will try the force update and see if that helps.
This is a little preposterous though. This NAS is intended to be my redundancy; now I have to create redundancy for it as well. Good thing drive space is still cheap.