Terastation Pro II Four New Drives Starting with None.

[Digital]

   

Hi, I am a newbee. I have purchased a damaged TS/P/II case with no drives installed and I want to install four New Drives.(I have repaired the case and it starts up fine) Can someone help me with a step by step method to install four drives (or even one). I have read through the forum but I seem to be able to find only bits of information.

Thank you in advance!

[Colin137]

Put the drives in the case, download the firmware for the device, and follow these instructions until it tells you to perform the firmware update:

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&message.id=330&query.id=45466#M330

 

After the device has booted, follow these steps to get the Debug menu:

 

http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&message.id=277&query.id=45488#M277

 

Check ALL FOUR of the options in the Config section before updating the firmware.

[Digital]

   

Do the new drives need to be formated NTFS? Or prepared before these steps?

Thanks.

[Digital]

   For some reason the photos do not display on any of my PC's ? Are the photo links dead?

[Colin137]

Image links should work now. Sorry about that :)

Message Edited by Colin137 on 01-22-2009 04:27 PM

[Digital]

   

Colin 137, Thank you so much for your help. All seems to work until I try and update the firmware. After clicking on update I get a message that states the drive does not have a partition and the drive needs to be formated. When I give the ok to format the drive I recieve the ERROR message " ACP_State_ Failure.

 

I am trying to test the Terastation Pro II with one new unpartitioned, Unformated drive. Is the problem that all this is not possible to do with just one drive? The drive is also just a 160 GB Drive.I did not want to invest in 4 drives until I knew if the case,supply and board were ok. Any info would help!

 

THANKS AGAIN!

 

[Colin137]

The fact that it's a 160gb drive may be causing that issue. These devices shipped with minimum 250GB drives.

[Digital]

   

Hi,

I went out today and purchased a 1TB drive. Same problem. Would you happen to have any other ideas as I am kind of out of things to try.

To bad there is not a way to test the mother board ,but there are no other error codes comming up on the display. The drive is seen but no format is possible. Firewall is off and no antivirus?

Thanks again,

Garry

[Digital]

   I am wondering if it is nessary to have 4 drives installed to complete a format and do a firmware upgrade? I have now tried a 1TB and a 500Gb. Same message and no success? ERROR message " ACP_State_ Failure.

Message Edited by Digital on 01-25-2009 07:39 PM

Message Edited by Digital on 01-25-2009 07:40 PM

[Dee]

   

ACP_State_ Failure usually indicates an issue with the mainboard and the unit will need to be repaired.

Also switching drives from one Terastation to another Terastation can fail if the model numbers on the back of the units do not match exactly. Since the software on the drives will be different than what the unit is looking for. The firmware resides on the mainboard and the drives.

If more than one drive is replaced on the Terastation the TFTP program will have to run on the unit in order to have it boot properly.

All 4 drives will need to be in the system when this is done, it will not boot with just one.

Follow the following steps to do the TFTP boot:

 

 

* Download the TFTP Boot software from the FTP site.
 There is a different version of the software for each NAS device. It is currently on available on the FTP site, but  may soon be on the main Buffalo site.

   ftp://24.153.165.234/disk1/share/nas-recovery

   * The Software is a self-extractor, so when the user click on file it will ask them where they want to extract the files to. The Desktop is a good choice, but anywhere  will work just as good.

     * Set the IP address on the computer to 192.168.11.1

     * Connect the Buffalo NAS to the computer, or for an easier way, connect the computer and NAS to a switch or router.
 
     * Launch the TFTP Boot.exe

  * Boot the Buffalo NAS into EM Mode.
To do this unplug the unit and start it up while holding down the reset/INIT button for 15 seconds while the unit boots up.

Check the TFTP boot program and make sure the software is "Listening On: 192.168.11.1"
If it does not you must stop the software and restart it.

Open the NAS NAVI program.
 It may take up to 60 seconds for the NAS to boot off TFTP  and be detected by the NasNavi

Now launch the firmware update for the unit. It can be found at www.buffalotech.com under the support and download sections.

 

[Digital]

   

With all the testing I have tried, I end up with the same results. The conclusion I have come to is I need to install 4 drives 250gb or bigger and then test the unit for one last time. If I get the ACP_State_Error message again I will be sure that it is a defective mother board. Thank you everyone for the great help! Great learning experience!

Garry.