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#11

Storage / Re: LS220D - Accessing SMART d...

Last post by MymsMan - October 19, 2026, 11:40:42 AM

User error!  Specified SDC1 instead of SDC

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smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WDC WD20EZRZ-22Z5HB0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4M3JPD66E
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2badda8a6
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Oct 19 11:45:03 2026 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
 ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0x00, LM=0x00, LH=0x00, DEV=0x00, STS=0x00
SMART Status not supported: Invalid ATA output register values
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
                                        was completed without error.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (26580) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 268) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   174   174   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       4266
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       72
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   197   197   000    Old_age   Always       -       765
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   041   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       43670
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       68
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       57
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       6192692
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   119   107   000    Old_age   Always       -       28
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   195   195   000    Old_age   Always       -       1631
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   196   196   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1617
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   196   196   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1710

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Running a short test resulted in:

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SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%     43670         2090007024
Also wondering why SMART status command failed

Google interpretation of results
Your hard drive is actively failing and is unsafe to use. You need to back up any critical data immediately and stop using the drive for active storage.

🚨 The Critical Red Flags

While your reallocated sector count is currently 0, the drive is failing to read physical magnetic sectors on the platters:
• ID 197 Current_Pending_Sector = 1631: There are 1,631 unstable sectors waiting to be remapped. The drive tried to read these sectors, failed, and has flagged them as "danger zones."
• ID 198 Offline_Uncorrectable = 1617: The drive's internal offline testing confirmed 1,617 sectors are completely unreadable and cannot be recovered by the drive's built-in error correction logic.
• ID 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate = 1710: There have been 1,710 errors while attempting to write data to the drive. This indicates serious physical degradation of the platter surface or the recording heads.

⏱️ The Drive's History & Lifespan

• ID 9 Power_On_Hours = 43,670: This drive has been running for 4.98 years of continuous power-on time. Mechanical hard drives typically begin showing high failure rates after 3 to 5 years.
• ID 193 Load_Cycle_Count = 6,192,692: Western Digital Green/Blue drives are rated for 300,000 head parks. Due to aggressive power management firmware, your drive has parked its heads over 6 million times—vastly exceeding its mechanical design limit.

#12

Storage / LS220D - Accessing SMART data

Last post by MymsMan - October 18, 2026, 03:14:06 PM

Recently my NAS reported a disk error and went into degraded mode,
Recommendation was to replace disk but the cost for a new 2TB disk is about the same as I paid for the 4TB NAS a few years ago ☹️

The Buffalo software was very vague about the nature of the error so I pulled the disk and attached it via USB to a Linux machine to see if the SMART data had more detail but it appears the disk does not support SMART

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smartctl -a /dev/sdc1
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               WDC WD20
Product:              EZRZ-22Z5HB0
Revision:             4101
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
LB provisioning type: unreported, LBPME=-1, LBPRZ=0
Logical Unit id:      0x3023567832183100
Serial number:        235678C218CA
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Sat Oct 17 22:15:13 2026 BST
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Error Counter logging not supported

No self-tests have been loggedIs this normal?
The disk model shows as a WD Blue drive and according to WD all WD drives support S.M.A.R.T
Why would a NAS drive not have S.M.A.R.T. enabled?

I have since rebuilt the Raid array using the same drive and, touch wood, it is working correctly with no further disk errors reported

#13

Idea Exchange Lounge / How to Factory Reset Buffalo L...

Last post by RickDJ - October 14, 2026, 08:50:19 AM

Hi
This is my first post in this forum.
I have a newer Buffalo Linkstation 210 4 TB which is lockedup.

Here is what led to this:
I had a 10 year old 2 TB Western Digital NAS connected to my network. It stopped working. It has 50,000 photos +-
I purchased a new Buffalo Linkstation 210 4 TB
I purchased a Sabrent docking station
I placed the WD drive in one slot of the Sabrent docking station, and the new Buffalo Linkstation 210 drive in the second slot
I pushed the "disk copy" button on the Sabrent docking station which should have copied all data from the WD drive to the new Buffalo drive

Unfortunately, it also appears to have copied a corrupt file or error
Now my Buffalo drive is also corrupted.

My question:
I simply want to do a factory reset on the Buffalo drive. (I do not care about the data...I have a backup). Using the Buffalo reset procedures does nothing..the drive simply does not respond.

I have downloaded Linux Disk Internals...I can see the Buffalo drive and partitions....but I am unable to delete  files or reset the drive.

In the lower right corner of the Linux Disk Internals, is shows for both Raid 1 and Raid 2: "Linux Volume: Raid is damaged. Recovery is possible."

Any advice for this "non-techie"

Best Regards

#14

Storage / LinkStation Live does not turn...

Last post by Remy - October 03, 2026, 07:09:05 PM

I have an old LinkStation Live (LS-CH1.0TL) that has worked fine for years. Then the other day, it stopped turning on. The fan is blowing, but the status lights remain off, and the HDD does not spin up. I'm guessing I'm hosed and need to get a new NAS device. I haven't tried opening it up to remove the HDD yet.

#15

Storage / LS441D firmware version 1.88

Last post by Txemari - September 21, 2026, 01:05:28 PM

Hi, is it safe to upgrade the firmware to 1.88? I´m asking because from the admin page the update section only gets to 1.86 and specifies NO upgrade avaible

#16

Storage / Win11 slow connection and/or d...

Last post by Txemari - September 21, 2026, 12:22:00 PM

Hi everyone, I´m having problems with Win 11. I access my LS441D V1.86 with the following equipment
Desktop Win 11 Pro V 24H2 and LapTop Win 11 Home 23H2 2 Samsung Smart TV's also an old Macbook
The desktop is very slow transfering files and some times drops the conection, the rest of the equipement works flawesly, any ideas?

#17

Storage / Re: How long for rescanning/re...

Last post by doobre - September 18, 2026, 09:02:55 AM

Howdy Kane88

I didn't do anything special, but wait, and wait, and wait... during that time I could not access the web UI.

After many days I took the plunge and removed the power. the reconnected the power while holding in the function button. First time it just went back to the orange flashing. I tried again and then it started with the blue led on and the flashing orange for rescanning the raid, and I could access the web UI.

So I just waited again, and waited..

The firmware was rewritten because it went back to the default user and PW, media server enabled etc... but all contents are still there. I imagine that the process I fumbled through forced it.

I am using the old NAS' as only storage, nothing installed on them, not using the Squeezebox server, itunes or Web Access. But I am using the DLNA media server on two Nas'.
The files (all types Video and Audio) play thru my AppleTv or Oppo and directly on my Samsung 'smart tv'. Flac, MP3, mkv, mp4, avi and mov.

The HHD are 2Tb on both sides, so 2Tb if in raid. Two Nas' are raid and two not.

LS220D - remember that you may need to enable the SMB v1 in the settings, cos it is set to SMB v2 by default. (My OPPO's will only work in SMB v1 - they don't even "see" the Nas if it is set to SMB v2) Mybe the same with the vizio !!?

Good luck cheers CD

any more Q's please go ahead

#18

Storage / Re: Bufallo LS210 on Netgear O...

Last post by Kane88 - September 07, 2026, 08:19:32 AM

If I invoke Navigator2 and then put in "Chuck/Cawfee" in for Network Credentials I see files ("Custom Office Templates") under "share", they are trash and I can lose them.

Sounds like the old data is still there for whatever reason.  Maybe a full factory reset wasn't done, but you are in it partially anyway.

I had tried to set up "Chuck" at the same level as share. but I only see that if I click on the IP Address in the File Explorer line then I get the setup I thought I was doing earlier - "Archive_Scans, Chuck, Info share and usbdisk", (usbdisk is one I plugged into the back of the LinkStation) so I'm "backing up" a level??
Confusing.
TIA
CVT

Correct, you went back to basically- the root of the available linkstation shares. 
And so am reading this as

Linkstation
\Archive_Scans
\Chuck
\Info
\share
\usbdisk


All these are on the same level from the root of the linkstation shares


Linkstation\Chuck could be mapped as X drive
Linkstation\share could be mapped as Z drive
and so on

that's where the net use or windows map network drive comes in
But... that's also where we are having a open folder error from the sounds of things...


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It sounds like the Chuck share is created at the right spot, the question is- are the permissions for it correct?  I'm thinking there's something wrong there.


I would check the account settings: 
I'd make sure username Chuck is in both the Users group and the Admin group

for the share settings> share permissions
you need to set Chuck to have read/write access to the Chuck folder as well


I am thinking either
Chuck isn't there on the share,
or one of the groups isn't there on the share permissions,
or one of the groups isn't on the user account

Something isn't lined up right.

Also, as noted in my earlier post.  Make sure SMB 2.X is ON.  I think by default it is OFF after a reset.  Verify this.

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The reason you don't want to map by IP address (besides it being DHCP and CAN change if the IP isn't renewed by the DHCP server/your router) is because this method is less secure than mapping it by the hostname, as using the hostname uses Kerberos for security (more secure).


So to get the hostname, you could also do this command nbtstat -A 192.168.1.xxx  < this would be the IP of your linkstation

The host name for my Terastation in this example, is TS54251


such that

C:\Users\MyUsername>nbtstat -A 192.168.1.251

Ethernet:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.109] Scope Id: []

           NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

       Name               Type         Status
    ---------------------------------------------
    TS54251        <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
    TS54251        <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
    TS54251        <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
    WORKGROUP      <1E>  GROUP       Registered
    WORKGROUP      <00>  GROUP       Registered

    MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00


The host name for my Terastation in this example, is TS54251

such that if it has a share named chuck

net use X: \\TS54251\Chuck /user:TS5451\Chuck Cawfee

something to that effect


or for the default share
net use Y: \\TS54251\share /user:TS5451\Chuck Cawfee


This should at least get the letters mapped to these share locations.



you could also do
net use Z: \\TS54251\usbdisk /user:TS5451\Chuck Cawfee


if you wanted to maintain this network mapping after rebooting windows. 
net use X: \\TS54251\Chuck /user:TS5451\Chuck Cawfee /persistent:yes   

If you do this, it DOES save the password to your Windows Credential Manager.  So be careful with that, if you are on a shared PC, I would save this as a .bat file somewhere (without /persistent:yes) and just run it as needed. 



Drive maps are preferable to using \\hostnames or \\192.168.x.x in file explorer because windows WILL poll those locations periodically, and can make file explorer sluggish over time. 

to delete the shares you can do
net X: /delete
net * /delete to delete ALL drive maps


That's about all I can do with text right now.  Maybe the answer is in here.  Try this and see what goes on.

#19

Storage / Re: Bufallo LS210 on Netgear O...

Last post by Kane88 - September 07, 2026, 07:48:13 AM

Thanks for the reply,
I rest the Admin Password, as that's the usual procedure for access to any network location
As to the Reset - there's mothing I have stored on the Linkstation of major importance.
I did the one transfer just to see - would it really work and how fast the transfer was.
So a full factory reset, and yes I reset the Admin ID.

Ok so you did a factory reset on the linkstation?  If so by default there are only two shares
share
info

My File Explorer windows contain (icon) "share (10,168,168,nnn (LinkStation)" and when I select that get
a Open Folder error,
Ill try to attach an image.

I'm not sure how you are mapping it.  This open folder error could be many things.

This could be the wrong permissions on the shared folder for the user you want to use.  It could be how windows mapped the drive.

It also could be a problem with the PC.  What Windows version are you using?   You might have the windows network settings set to where you cannot browse the network, or file and print sharing may be off?  I don't know without seeing it.

Or it could be something related to user account settings either on the linkstation, or a problem with SMB 2.x not being enabled on the linkstation (I believe it is off by default after the reset you did???)


Without screenshots it is hard to pinpoint and fix this.

I would suggest sending me screenshots of the share and user permissions and the user acct from the linkstation.  The posting system here does not allow you to attach images for whatever reason.

The only way you can do that is by email, or you have to share links from photos you have online somewhere. 

Or, if you want, I can try to help you via screen share with a windows quick assist session.  Drop me a PM on here if you want to try either of these ways. 

Click my name on the left of the posting lists, it should take you to a page to where you can send a PM from there.

#20

Storage / Re: Bufallo LS210 on Netgear O...

Last post by ChuckTin - September 06, 2026, 11:58:32 AM

If I invoke Navigator2 and then put in "Chuck/Cawfee" in for Network Credentials I see files ("Custom Office Templates") under "share", they are trash and I can lose them. I had tried to set up "Chuck" at the same level as share. but I only see that if I click on the IP Address in the File Explorer line then I get the setup I thought I was doing earlier - "Archive_Scans, Chuck, Info share and usbdisk", (usbdisk is one I plugged into the back of the LinkStation) so I'm "backing up" a level??
Confusing.
TIA
CVT