LS220 SHOWS 7 TIMES BLINKING ERROR. NOT DETECTED BY WINDOWS.

[luca de moliner]

Hallo,

Since friday I can't acces to my LS 220 NAS anymore.
NAS navigator can't see the NAS device.
PC says it does not detect my Buffalo LS220 anymore.
The device shows a 7 times red blinking error (sorry but I can't really interpretate instructions to understand blinking codes).
If I press the function button at the back, the device starts blinking white very fast. I let the device blinking white for a couple of days assuming that it was doing a sort of recover but this morning (monday) it was still blinking.
Weird thing is that if I try to switch off the device switching from ON to OFF nothing happens (keeps blinking).
To turn it off I have to unplug (but the switch works coz if I turn it ON from OFF status it does work).
I have all of my working data inside.
When I bought the device I thougt that if one of the hard disk was to be broken the other one would work.
I cant see any of the the two.
Can anyone help me?
I've been searching on the Buffalo site and on the internet and, even if the problem is reported several times, nobody gives a real solution to it.

[davo]

You need the recovery image for the unit, you can PM me for it. Bare in mind it will fix the unit but any data will be erased.

[luca de moliner]

thanks 4 answering.
don't know what PM means.
...and I forgot to say that my buffalo unit has 2 HD and one should contain the image data of the other (RID). Is there a way to access to datas assuming that I should have 2 copy of them? (if one is corrupted the other is ipotetically right isn't it?

Thank you again

[luca de moliner]

Ok got it. PM means Private Message. Not Post Meridian.
You saxon language people and your attitude to acronym everithing!  :) :) :)

I will contact you trough PM

[msteinwender]

Having similar issue with Navigator on Mac. is there a fix for this and can data be recovered? by inserting new drive?

[tynis]

Did you happen to recently apply the Firmware Update that was released around June 27?  I did and today I have an E15 code.  Chapter Appendix 10 in manual indicates E15
The bad sectors have reached a dangerous level.  Replace the defective drive.   Seems odd to me that it has worked FLAWLESSLY since installation in Jan 2017 until now.  Just trying to figure out if others are having issues after upgrading the firmware.

[Tokfan]

Davo, do you still have that image? My damn NAS has this error after i switched discs in it.

[1000001101000]

Check out the post pinned at the top of the Storage Forum:
http://forums.buffalotech.com/index.php?topic=30419.0

It has instructions for starting over with new drives on these devices.

If you'd be interested in trying Debian Linux rather than the stock firmware check out:
https://github.com/1000001101000/Debian_on_Buffalo