Terastation TS-8VHL

Stock Firmware Installation
You can re-install the linux-based firmware by creating a recovery disk, see Create Recovery Disk for Intel-based Terastation You can then boot from it by switching the boot mode switch on the back to "USB", after a few minutes the device will go into EM Mode Then you can install the firmware using the firmware updater in debug mode, see Enable Debug mode for LSUpdater/TSUpdater

Custom Firmware/Operating System installation
These devices run on an Intel Atom processor with a fairly typical BIOS and include a VGA out and support USB keyboards, you should be able to run virtually any operating system that will run on a normal PC depending on drivers/etc.

For tools to help install and configure Debian on these devices, see Installing Debian on Intel Terastations

Buffalo Resources

 * Buffalo Support
 * Manuals, Firmware, etc