I have a Nov-2010 Seagate Dockstar with the matching Seagate 500GB laptop disk that has been running fine since then. That's a lot of hours on the disk even in relatively light though continuous usage running my weewx weather station software on it plus a little file serving. The last I touched it significantly was in Oct-2013 when I fouled up a squeeze=>wheezy update and had to flattby vds - Debian
yup it does work fine either way, by 'only' I meant "with only the usb key attached".....poorly worded on my part :-) Thanks again for the help !by vds - uBoot
last update - dockstar 1 also works fine off both the usb key with your rootfs 'and' the spinning disk copy of the same image. So my problem was 'definitely' a hosed squeeze => wheezy update. Thanks a bunch for the help !!!!!by vds - uBoot
ok, dockstar number 2 now works again, seems like the squeeze => wheezy dist-upgrade is what was hosed. Verified your rootfs worked for usb-key disk only. mounted the native dockstar spinning disk and installed to its first partition similarly and the box boots off its native spinning disk only too. I checked debian_release and found your rootfs is debian 7.1 so I did 'apt-get updateby vds - uBoot
Here's the printing output.... Environment size: 2601/131068 bytes arcNumber=2998 baudrate=115200 bootcmd=usb start; run force_rescue_bootcmd; run ubifs_bootcmd; run usb_bootcmd; usb stop; run rescue_bootcmd; run pogo_bootcmd; reset bootdelay=10 console=ttyS0,115200 ethact=egiga0 ethaddr=00:10:75:1A:5A:E2 force_rescue=0 force_rescue_bootcmd=if test $force_rescue -eq 1 || ext2loby vds - uBoot
For some crazy reason I tried to update my Seagate Dockstar running squeeze to wheezy and in the process of finding all the web links from almost 3 years ago I either hosed something up, or the new scripts have bugs I didn't work around correctly. It was late. I was shall we say 'not wise'. Help appreciated. Updating squeeze => wheezy via "apt-get dist-upgrade" gby vds - uBoot
WyoGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just bought three Dockstars, plus drives and > enclosures. (One for me, one for work, and one > for a friend) > > The USB 2.0 enclosure that I use is a Kit from > Nipon Labs for 2.5" hard drive: > Nipon Labs USB 2.0 Enclosure from NewEgg > > $9.99 with Free Shipping > quby vds - Debian
update - got the Imation 8GB key to boot while plugged into the back right slot (as facing the front of the unit) by doing the following: setting the arcNumber value to 2998 (dockstar) making the first partition on the flash disk bootable within fdisk changing the bootcmd in fw_setenv to add a leading 'usb start ; usb stop; ' to the existing stanza, per a post elsewhere in the forumby vds - Debian
Just received my Dockstars today and ran Jeff's procedure to install Debian on one of them. Tried two times, both 'seemingly' successful, first to a 8GB Imation USB key, then to a 40GB laptop drive. On the "you can now reboot your device into Debian" prompt I tried that a couple times, then yanked the power and reconnected. In both cases the Dockstar boots to the Pogopby vds - Debian