Linkstation LS441D

Stock Firmware Installation

 * Buffalo's instructions to install from built in NAND
 * Install Stock Firmware (without TFTP)

Custom Firmware/Operating System installation
Installing Debian on Armada-370 Devices

Device Notes
The first 2 SATA ports appear to be connected both to the SoCs built in SATA and to the PCI SATA chip (88SE9215). It looks like when starting it uses this connection to boot from the first two drives and then rediscovers them after the kernel loads the drivers for the PCI device. Presumably this is why this device requires a drive present in bay 1 or 2 to boot. GPIO pin 15 is connected to both the power button and pin 8 (LED[2]) of the ethernet chip. Initially I assumed this had something to do with Wake-On-LAN but this device doesn't claim to support WOL. Presumably this is used to signal to the bootloader whether the device intends to shutdown or reboot when it shuts down. This can cause troubling behavior under linux if you do not change the default behavior of the LED[2] pin and leave the power button configured.

Buffalo Resources

 * Product Description
 * Manuals, Firmware, etc