I’ve even provided instructions on how to open up the firmware, enabling SSH, Telnet and more. This post should act as a definitive guide to unbricking your LS200-series. Thinking they’d tell me I’d voided my warranty and couldn’t help me as such, I was pleasantly surprised at how helpful they were in providing me TFTP Boot instructions, including all the relevant software and images required. I ended up having to contact Buffalo support in order to rectify everything. The information available online for unbricking and/or opening the firmware of the LS200-series is… sparse. To make matters worse, I later found out that the LS220’s recovery features are stored on the disks’ /boot partition, which I had wiped while cleaning down the disks. In my struggles to find an elegant solution to this, I ended up “bricking” the device, meaning it would no longer boot. Much to my disappointment, however, the firmware came far more locked-down than I had hoped, and provided no means to (easily) enable SSH. RAID1) backup solution and intended to use it as an SSH server for my rsync backup scripts. I bought this NAS purely as a redundant (i.e. The device itself is a good quality piece of hardware, but the software leaves a lot to be desired. I recently bought a Buffalo LinkStation LS220 NAS (network-attached storage) device.
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