LS-X1.0TL Persistent Shutdown failure - Restore only temporary cure

[BGAird]

I'm reporting a persistent shutdown failure with Firmware 1.62.

We know the drive has received the shutdown command because the blue light flashes (continuously in fault mode) , but it cannot complete the shut down

The temporary cure is to perform a Default Restore. However, shutdown only works for a while before getting stuck at the 'blue flashing light stage' again.
Power Down/Power Up always works to wake the drive.

 

It this fault on the LinkStation bug list as unresolved?

 

Thanks

 

Brian Aird MISTC

 

[davo]

reflash the firmware

[BGAird]

After another couple of restores port 9000 is now absent.

Here's an edited result of a Zenmap scan:

 

      Scanning LS-XL30B.home (192.168.1.72) [1000 ports]

      Discovered open port 139/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 443/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 21/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 445/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 80/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 9050/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 3689/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 22939/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 873/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 8873/tcp on 192.168.1.72
      Discovered open port 548/tcp on 192.168.1.72

Wthout port 9000, it isnt possible to setup port forwarding for WebAccess

This NAS is taking a lot of fixit time over the year or so I've owned it and this is the second time this defect has occured - it was like this out of the box in fact. Restore used to fix it. I will try re-flashing again as a last hope and report back. Is there anything newer than 1.62 in the pipeline?

 

 

 

 

[BGAird]

Reflash not possible due to version guard.

How do I force a reflash?

 

Thanks

 

[davo]

enable the debug options on the firmware update (the .ini file) and select "Do not check version" and "Force Update"

 

Full instructions are in FAQ 2 of 5 in the storage section.

[BGAird]

Done.

reflash forced OK

WebAcess enabled, port 9000 present.

 

Will test timer and functionality again.

 

Thanks

 

Brian

 

 

[BGAird]

The shutdown command worked just once after the reflash. The timer uses the same command and so doesn't work either.

 

Clearly I can't keep reflashing the drive every day.

 

Is this a hardware fault or a software fault?

 

If hardware should I RA it?

 

Thanks

 

Brian