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I have a perfectly servicable LS-XH2.0TL-EU with about 1.3 Terabytes spread over 20 shares on it, the most important being daily backed up to an older 1TB LS-CHL drive. 5 days ago, a wiring fault in some new wiring in my house tripped a RCCB (residual current circuit breaker) due to a neutral - earth fault. No surge, nothing damaging, just happens that the circuit with my primary NAS was in the same bank on the consumer unit as the circuit with the fault, so it got tripped out. Fortunately my backup NAS was on a different circuit. Unfortunately, while determining where the fault was, I restored the power several times and caused it to trip again, so interrupting the boot process on the LS-XH2.0L 3 times, resulting in it reverting to engineering mode. From what I have read, there seems to be no way of remedying this other than re-flashing the firmware, or, if it is an ARM9 device, renaming a file \boot\rootfs_ok. Also read of many people having serious problems attempting to re-flash with later versions of the firmware. Question 1: is there any way of knowing what firmware it was shipped with (S/N 45847000800062, I think), and question 2: is an LS-XH2.0TL-EU an ARM9 device? I'm reluctant to re-flash firmware without knowing the version. I've tried telnet and ssh on it and it refuses to accept the connection so I don't think it has the support for these. That means, I suppose, removing the drive, putting it in an appropriate caddy, and hooking it onto my Linux PC to rename the filename. If possible I don't want to have to rebuild the contents, as it would take about 10 - 20 hours to do so, and there may be a few hundred megabytes of recent photos, video, and sound not backed up.

Question 1: I wouldn't know any way of getting the firmware was on the unit when it was release. Though that shouldn't really matter.
Question 2: Its a ARM Process, its being a ARM9 i wont honestly know. Never owned the unit so don't know the hardware all to well. Though that should matter with the tftp.

Use this one for TFTP:http://www.mediafire.com/download/1b95n8gvy215b5b/TFTP_Boot_Recovery_LS-XHL_1.40.sfx.exe

And follow these directions
http://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=10185.0

If it does not work try another pc. This must be done on windows. If all else fails use linux to pull your data.