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Sunday, November 15, 2009
I picked up a Hitachi SimpleNet a while back to run my NAS, I use it to backup my various computers data to it and to share info between them. I have a 1TB drive hanging off of it which is also mirrored to my main systems 1TB data drive (which is backed up off site via mozy.) Yes, I backup my backup, and then back that up off site. It has been working perfectly until I went to upgrade my firmware on it, I noticed the other day that a new firmware version 2.3.22b1 was available. So as any good geek does I applied it. Now it does not see my 1TB usb drive, I am still able to see other devices I attach to it just not my big disk. I tried resetting the NAS to factory defaults an nothing worked so far. I just contacted their support so I guess we will see how it goes.
Wish me luck.
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# uname -a
Linux tomalak 2.6.16-star #87 Fri Oct 23 15:02:54 CST 2009 armv4l unknown
# mount |grep "/var/ftp"
/dev/sdb1 on /var/ftp/WD_Passport type vfat (rw,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,utf8)
/dev/sda1 on /var/ftp/MINIROOT type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
# grep smb /etc/sysconfig/config/service
smb=Enable
I can smb mount both, and accessing ext3 share (MINIROOT) works fine, but when I try to access vfat share (WD_Passport), I get the following error on the samba client:
$ mount |grep WORKGROUP
/localhome/guestz/WD_Passport on //WORKGROUP;guestz@TOMALAK/WD_Passport remote/read/write/nosetuid/nodevices/intr/noxattr/dev=5080001 on Thu Dec 10 19:35:10 2009
/localhome/guestz/MINIROOT on //WORKGROUP;guestz@TOMALAK/MINIROOT remote/read/write/nosetuid/nodevices/intr/noxattr/dev=5080002 on Thu Dec 10 19:54:49 2009
$ cd /localhome/guestz/MINIROOT
$ ls
bin lib mybin proc sys
dev localfs mylib sbin tmp
etc lost+found mysrc SimpleNet.2.3.22b1.bin usr
$ cd /localhome/guestz/WD_Passport
$ ls -la
.: Value too large for defined data type
I reformatted it from a WinXP box and it worked, but it was still a bit slow, I then reformatted it EXT3 from an ubuntu box and it's a hell of a lot faster now.
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=0 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
Hitachi got finally back to me regarding the bug:
"If possible you can try reloading the firmware, but if that does not work you will need to set a RMA for replacement. Here is the link for RMA"...
But now that I've opened up the case and soldered pins to the board, it's not much help :-(
BTW, check out another blog for this dongle:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=99327