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Started by Dynastone, July 15, 2020, 01:53:27 PM

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Dynastone

July 15, 2020, 01:53:27 PM
Dear All
I have just purchased a second hand Buffalo Linkstation ls-Wxl 2 bay drive and I have no HDD with it. I have purchased a 2TB WD RED drive and inserted it into Bay 1.

When turning it on The Blue light flashes for about 10 Sec then it changes to a Redd error light flashing 6 times.

The NAS reads ok in a Test Bay unit on my pc so it must be the Linkstation.

Please could someone help me get this working?

Many Thanks

:(

1000001101000

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July 15, 2020, 02:09:49 PM
There's a thread about installing the firmware on blank drives here:
https://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=30419.0

Often the stock firmware does not like being installed to a single drive for 2-bay devices. There is a specific note on a way to get around that here:
https://buffalonas.miraheze.org/wiki/Restoring_Stock_Firmware_without_TFTP#Notes_before_you_begin

If you'd prefer you can also install Debian Linux instead of the stock firmware:
https://github.com/1000001101000/Debian_on_Buffalo
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