LS-CH1.0TL shows E06 AND E07 Error!!

[jkurotobi]

   

Hello,

 

August/2009 I bought in Japan a Buffalo LS-CH1.0TL.

I'm living in Brazil and I had a quick business trip to that country, and took the opportunity to buy it there, as I did not find this product here (and that time it made more than a year that I had not traveled to the US).

 

Linkstation was working very well until last thursday, when a power outage happened.

 

Since then, my LinkStation unit stopped to work: when power returned, LED was flashing Red 6 times (E06). After reading this forum, I followed TFTP boot procedures.

It did not enter to serve blocks automatically and pressed the Function button for 5sec, LED started to blink Blue rapidly, blocks were served, however the unit did not entered to EM mode. Even switching it to off, power did not gone out, and after several hours of waiting, I unplugged the cord.

When reconnected, LED started blinking Red 7 times (E07)...!!

 

The most strange thing is that when I proceed with the EM mode boot, It blinks red 6 times again, but all the issue above repeats.

 

Linkstation is on warranty period yet, but very stupidly (I must admit) I did not keep the purchasing receipt, as I never had problems with products bought in Japan nor US, and even if with a problem, I would not ship a product abroad for repair...

 

 

Does anyone have some idea how can I have my unit back to work?

...and... did I lose my data?

 

If there's no way to do it home, how much would cost the repair service in the US?

[JoshC]

7 flashes - Problem with motherboard (RAM, LAN, or Hard Drive controller).  This unit will have to be replaced.

[jkurotobi]

   

Thanks, JoshC.

 

Oh my...

 

So even when doing the procedures again from the beginning it flashes 6x and after 7x, the bad code overrules...

 

But what about the data? If this bad unit is taken to the repair shop, will they be able to recover it?

 

Was the power shortage the cause of the problem? I read so many issues involving E07 that I am believing that LS-CHL series are not reliable products...

[PCPiranha]

"But what about the data? If this bad unit is taken to the repair shop, will they be able to recover it?"

 

They might but taking it to anyone besides drive savers (http://www.drivesavers.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.drivesavers.com) will void your warranty.

[jkurotobi]

   

OK... 'got'it.

Thanks!