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Howdy,

I have a Buffalo NAS drive with a red light.  I believe it flashes three times.  Now, I am not 100% sure of the model  -  but I believe it's the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo 2.   

So, what do I do?   Buy a hard drive and pop it in (replace the bad hard drive)?    Or, is there a procedure for rebuilding?

NAS Navigator 2 has this to say:

Error:
E30: An error has occurred on disk 1
I12: The RAID array works under degrade mode

I also took a screen capture:

(http://orangeampforum.com/images/raid_drive_issue_01.jpg)
(http://orangeampforum.com/images/raid_drive_issue_02.jpg)

Buy a new disk, put it into whichever bay is show the fault, reboot the unit, log onto the setting page and rebuild the RAID.

So, I take it I'd use NASNavigator to rebuild the RAID? 

Quote from: davo on December 08, 2018, 05:48:32 PM
Buy a new disk, put it into whichever bay is show the fault, reboot the unit, log onto the setting page and rebuild the RAID.

No, you do this via the settings page. System - Storage - Array1.

I don't know of anyway to access a settings page.  The only thing I know is that after plugging these NAS drives into the network they show up as a network drive (Windows Explorer).  My units are pretty old - are the manuals still around somewhere? 

Right click the picture of the Linkstation in the NAS Navigator -> Settings. Have a look through the manual.

Okay, so type the IP address assigned to the NAS in a browser to access the settings page. Or, as you have stated, through NASNavigator 2 right click on the drive icon and select "Open Web Settings"

Helpful tips:
default username and password (if a password has never been setup)
Username: admin
Password: password

Now that I'm in the settings page I can see that DISK 1 is bad (well there's a error with DISK 1).
However when I take apart the NAS unit nothing is marked that I can see indicating which disk is DISK 1 and which is DISK 2.   
I'd guess that the disk on the left is DISK 1 and the disk on the right is DISK 2.

The user manual as found through the Settings Page is fairly general and is written for 4 or 5 different models and I don't see anything in the manual identifying the physical location of DISK 1 or DISK 2.

At this point I could just buy a replacement hard drive and randomly replace one of the two while crossing my fingers, but I was hoping for something a little more solid.   

Should I take the red pill or the blue pill?

(http://orangeampforum.com/images/raid_drive_issue_03.png)

Should be the one on the left.

If you shut the device down before removing a drive it wont really matter. If the device doesnt come up it means you guessed wrong, then you can poweroff and switch to the other.

Thanks @1000001101000

I plan to head out to the store today and buy a replacement drive today.  I wonder if this would be a good time to upgrade from a 2TB drive to something larger, say 4TB or even 8TB.