I am glad to see this topic since I have been trying to bring my out-of-warranty LS220DE back to life after it has sat powered down for several years. I don't recall at this point what happened when I set it up initially, but right now it has two WD Red 3TB drives in it which are brand new and never used as far as I know. I originally bought the LS220DE without drives, and added the two it now has. I don't know if I ever got it working originally. NOW, I have some time and have tried several times to rehabilitate it without success. The trouble starts with the drive not shutting down when the switch on the back is turned off - I have to pull the power cable out to shut it off. I looked through the manual but found only an initialization procedure on page 91 which directed me to turn the Linkstation on while holding down the function button (the function LED starts flashing white) and then press the function button again. The LEDs start flashing white (both of them in the front) and the instructions say that initialization will take 5 to 10 minutes. This is where it becomes a further problem: 1) NAS Navigator2 never sees it, 2) the flashing LEDs never stop flashing, though I left it running for 2+ hours just to see if it would 'finish' itself. 3) The drive was still flashing when I tried to turn it off with the power switch on the back, and as before the power switch does not turn it off. I again had to pull the power cable out of the back to turn it off.
This looks to me like an internal electronic failure, but I don't know where to go from here, and since it is out-of-warranty I can't get any help from Buffalo. I would appreciate very much any guidance anyone can give me about this. At this point I am looking at recycling the drives and getting rid of the enclosure, but I would love it if someone could tell me a way to get it working again. 6TB of network storage would be great to have!
Thanks,
Michael