Thanks for your efforts :) Whilst it's not exactly related, apologies for that in advance, I always wondered if it was possible to put binaries and zips on github - is that fairly easy to do on a free github account ? Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
I don't know if the kirkwood.debian-wheezy.sh installer is currently considered working or not ... I found this very well laid out page on sticky (thanks @bodhi) - http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,23630 Relevant topics are : Latest Linux Kirkwood kernel and rootfs (sticky thread) Latest Kirkwood u-boots (sticky thread) Backup and Restore NAND mtds And my suggestion would be lby DonCharisma - Debian
Thanks for sharing Joey, although I can't actually find where to buy one at $5 ! Cheers Donby DonCharisma - Off-Topic
My solution to the clicking issue was to mount my drives in an external enclosure with a fan to cool the drives. So I suspect that the drives had been running hotter than they wanted to ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Off-Topic
It's been a while since I hacked one of these from stock Seagate firmware, so hopefully one of the others here will chip in and let you know the current/best/easiest way to do it ... Cheers Donby DonCharisma - Debian
Quotermleonard Do you have an updated openmediavault install posting? (Your original spoke of version 0.4 and iirc 2.xx is the current) The current version seems to be in the apt sources... (But will that work correctly?) I've been gifted a goflex net (not sure if it works)... So I need to find out why it doesn't have a web page, and then.. omv seems to be where i&by DonCharisma - Debian
@Jim, you're welcome. @grayman4hire, that repo is maintained by www.webupd8.org, I posted the source as a link, probably give them a shout. That was "the easy way" to install oracle Java, it's also possible to download and install from Oracle themselves ... Cheers Donby DonCharisma - Debian
@Saverio - sure why not ... just be sure to link back to the original post - http://doncharisma.org/2013/09/22/build-your-own-pro-nas-seagate-goflex-net-with-debian-linux-raid1-and-openmediavault/ cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
I think the generally accepted wisdom is try to avoid using swap on flash based devices, as the repeated writes can wear out the NAND cells prematurely ... For hard disc, knock yourself out, anywhere between 1/2 and 2 times the memory depending on what your machine is doing ... seperate swap partition are generally recommended ... and if you have two or more discs, then create swap parition onby DonCharisma - Off-Topic
YW Joey ... if you do manage to get it working, then do share in case someone else out there wants to do the same thing ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@renojim - you're welcome ... and yes I know entirely what you mean about hours evaporating over these kinds of issues ... usually I learn something, and often either eventually get it working or find a workaround ! As for power failures, I get plenty of those here at random times ... UPS would be the a solution, but I haven't got around to buying one yet. And, yes just had a failby DonCharisma - Debian
@renojim - I'm not saying this is "the problem", but USB3 ports are rated at higher current than USB2 ports - wikipedia : QuoteWikipedia The USB 1.x and 2.0 specifications provide a 5 V supply on a single wire to power connected USB devices. A unit load is defined as 100 mA in USB 2.0, and 150 mA in USB 3.0. A device may draw a maximum of 5 unit loads (500 mA) from a port inby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi - nice going, I didn't even realise this was possible in that small memory :) I'll have to look into zswap, it's a new one on me ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@JoeyPogoPlugE02 - I've had my experiences with VIA, and I'm not a fan. My desktop PC has VIA USB3 and it's very unreliable ... and I bought a VIA USB3 card that basically didn't work ... found out afterwards NEC is the way to go for USB3, lesson learnt ... anyway, enough complaining ! Something I've come to realise is that Linux distributions are very similar, Ubuntuby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi - couldn't agree more, SD cards seem the most fragile of all, which is OK they are after all designed I think for cameras which shouldn't be write intensive ... for future I'll be doing write intensive stuff on something more robust ! LOL, yup, nothing like destroying a perfectly good piece of hardware through experimenting, it's fun I've realised, eventually !by DonCharisma - Debian
I debated with myself a little as to whether to post or not to post. What the heck … could save you countless hours of fun trying to figure out how to do it yourself ... Rationale The thing I like about ARM devices is that they seem to run forever without crashing on virtually no electricity at all, on virtually fresh air. Backing up files into CrashPlan takes a lot of time on a slow inteby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi - sorry for late reply, been a little "busy" ... my experiences with f2fs were that there are still some issues that need ironing out ... I think it's absolutely time for file systems that are aware and built specifically for SDD/Flash, so I hope the issues will be ironed out soon ... On a more humourous note I managed to "cook" a Sandisk Ultra micro SD card recby DonCharisma - Debian
@troutsoup - in simple terms bodhi's a good guy ... I've been using his kernels for years now, without major incident ... the advantage for me, is if there is/was a difficulty then I can post a question here and bodhi will (probably) answer ... The other thing is that the mainstream Debian wheels do seem to turn quite slowly, they turn a little faster here :)by DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi - You're welcome, and thanks for all your efforts :) ... looks like Joey gets my sense of humour too, nice one Joey ... harass kittens ... classic ! Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
PS, for the record - I'd vouch for bodhi's downloads ... I've yet to find any trojans or viri, hard to find even any bugs :) Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@grayman4hire - Good quesiton ... I've been doing a blog for about 3 years and have become a great fan of disclaimers, something along the lines - "This is provided as is, without warranty or gaurantee of fitness for the purpose. If in doubt do your own due diligence, and don't download and/or use." As was pointed out by others, there's really no way to know if anytby DonCharisma - Debian
@metric - I concur with Gravelrash, sounds like a power issue of some description. Properly earthed power supplies are best, but often that's not an option ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@dirixmjm - bit of an obvious question - but does the device you're trying to do that on actually have an internal speaker ? Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@habibie - PS here's the thread - http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,17868 Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@habibie - are you looking to put Debian on there or OpenWRT ? Reason I ask is that this is a Debian forum, OpenWRT have their own forums :) If you're looking to put Debian on there, I believe the question has already been asked here, which might yield an answer. I don't know the thread but try this in Google - "doozan seagate business storage" ... you should find the thby DonCharisma - Debian
NO idea how you'd replace RAM chip, you'd need the correct equipment presumably, and risk bricking the device if the soldering not done properly ... Google is your friend here, unless some brave soul here already done this ! ALSO, are you sure that RAM is completely exhausted ? You know Debian caches "stuff" in "free" memory, so looking at top can be misleading ..by DonCharisma - Debian
@rkrug - I don't have any first hand experience ARM/SSD, more with flash drives and sd cards on ARM ... in any case : Your device should recognise it as a SATA device, partitions can be created the same as a hard disc. Arch linux have an EXCELLENT help page on SSDs I recommend checking that out. Partitions can be created with tools like fdisk or gparted gui on another linux box. Onby DonCharisma - Debian
@hollari - PS, I found RAID10,f2 to have better performance than RAID1 ... but I think that has to be setup on command line, I don't think it's in OMV ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@hollari - I've (personally) migrated off of using OMV in favour of setting stuff up manually with command line. So no there isn't a "newer image" :) One thing I forgot to do when I set mine up was to add in the swap partitions. With mdadm, at boot, an fsck on a RAID array can fail due to not having enough memory. So it's *essential* to create the swap if you're uby DonCharisma - Debian
@LeggoMyEggo - makes sense, MYSQL does like it's memory !by DonCharisma - Debian