LS421DE setup

[dbvanhorn]

New nas out of the box.
One drive installed in the right hand slot (closest to the pushbutton and USB)
White light blinks for a while and goes out, then the upper white light (power?) is on.
At this point, the NAS is seen by NAS Navigator 2 as 192.168.1.105 and has a yellow "?"
The lower panel shows "Emergency mode"...  Not so good out of the box experience.

I have LS Updater 1.81 installed, it finds the NAS but every time I try to update I get "Partition not found, aborting"
LS421DE-EM100   Firmware version is shown as all dashes.

So I keep following the ikea-ese manual, and I guess I'm supposed to press and hold the button till the lower light comes on?, or blinks, or something, so I hold till the light comes on.
A few seconds later the light is off..  Is anything happening?  How would I know?
I see the clock that sort of indicates something might take 10 minutes?

I wait 10 minutes plus, and still the yellow "?" in nas navigator, still emergency mode etc.

Not much in the docs about what to do when things go wrong..

I tried going to http://192.168.1.105   "Problem loading page"


Any ideas?
:(

[davo]

Press the function button quickly (half a second, don't press and hold it) then the LEDs will start to flash and install the firmware in roughly 10 minutes.

[dbvanhorn]

In the interim, I think I have solved it.

No amount of button pressing would help.
One sentence on the ikeaguide (tm) reads "do not add a hard drive that has previously been used in a linkstation or terastation"

Apparently I am meant to guess that this means "the drive(s?) must not have any partitions defined".

"Partition not found" actually means "Found a partition I wasn't expecting"?

:( ::)

[MiG174]

One drive installed in the right hand slot (closest to the pushbutton and USB)

if you set one disc, it must be in the first slot (left slot)

[davo]

One drive installed in the right hand slot (closest to the pushbutton and USB)

if you set one disc, it must be in the first slot (left slot)

No it doesn't, it can be in either slot.

[dbvanhorn]

Well, it's been up and running for 6 hours now, so I guess I have this solved.   Obviously I am finding the documentation for that part of the system to be rather lacking.

Now that it's up and running, I was able to set up users, define shared folders, and I have it emailing me status reports.
Some things could be improved in the UI there, but it wasn't too hard a puzzle to solve.

Now I have to figure out the backup/restore with android phones.  I have phones being backed up, but I'm not sure where the files are going, or how to recover a file from a backup.  But that's a different problem.