Amber
After you change settings or format a drive, the power LED will blink amber. You can also confirm the current status
from Settings or NAS Navigator2.
Code Description Corrective Action
I12 Operating in degraded mode. -
I13 Formatting the RAID array. -
I14 Checking the RAID array. -
I16 Creating the RAID array. -
I18
Rebuilding the RAID array.
Note: Transfer speeds are slower
during the rebuilding process.
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I19
Writing 0s to the RAID array and
erasing all data.
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I20 Formatting the drive. Don’t turn off the LinkStation.
I21 Checking the drive. Don’t turn off the LinkStation.
I22 Erasing the data for the drive. -
I23 The system is being initialized. -
I25
Updating the LinkStation
firmware.
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I28 Formatting the USB drive. Don’t turn off the LinkStation.
I46
Data migration or conversion
(RAID migration) is in progress.
Don’t turn off the LinkStation.
I52
A new firmware version has been
released.
Update the firmware.
I54 The backup job failed.
Make sure that the backup job is configured
correctly, and that the NAS is on and not in standby
mode. If the backup job still fails, check the status
of the NAS, network, and the backup source and
destinations.
Default Settings
Administrator’s Name admin
Shared Folders “Public” and “admin” (for both Windows and Mac computers).
IP Address
The LinkStation will get its IP address automatically from a DHCP
server on the network. If no DHCP server is available, then an IP
address will be assigned as follows:
IP Address: 169.254.xxx.xxx (“xxx” is assigned randomly when
booting the LinkStation.)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Microsoft Network Group Settings WORKGROUP
SMB Enabled
AFP Disabled
FTP Disabled
DLNA Server Enabled
iTunes Disabled
Downloader Disabled
WebAccess Disabled
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