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LED Description
Power LED (green)
| on
| Normal: Timed shutdown timer has not been activated
|
| Blink
| At bootup, prior to ppc_uartd starting, Just prior to flash memory being updated
|
| Blink Slowly
| Timeed shutdown has been established
|
If ppc_uartd does not start for some reason (or started late due to hardware/software issues), the Power LED will continue blinking. After five minutes the DIAG LED will continuously blink 6 times (hard drive failure) and then shut the box down.
LINK/ACT LED
| orange
| 10BASE-T
|
| green
| 100BASE-TX
|
| blue
| 1000BASE-T (Kurobox HG only)
|
DISK FULL LED (red)
| on
| Disk full
|
| blink
| Writing to flash memory
|
DIAG LED (red)
| 3 times blink
| Partition warning: /dev/hda3 is not mounted on /mnt. You can ignore it.
|
| 4 times blink
| Problem with the cooling fan - probably rotor jammed.
|
| 5 times blink
| Problem with the flash memory*
|
| 6 times blink
| Hard drive not found. Or ppc_uartd is not running.
|
| 7 times blink
| Problem with the RAM/LAN/HDD controller.
|
| blink many times
| Writing to flash memory.
|
* It may be possible to recover from a flash memory error by pulling out power cord and trying again after one night.
Table copied from http://www.yamasita.jp/linkstation.en/led.html with minor rewording. nobuakiy helped with the translation.
Notes
Users have reported problems when the drive already has a Linux partition on it - the diag light blinks 6 times. The solution appears to be to simply to reformat the drive.
