Re: Re: Which NAS Box?

[Davey <db1001ster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use one of these with a pair of 250gig drives.
Only problem is that I have is that I want to turn off the unit overnight
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as the drives don't spin down when idle. I connected a 24 hour socket
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but the slug won't power on until the front buton is pressed.
There is a hardware mod
http://www.nslu2-Linux.org/wiki/HowTo/ForcePowerAlwaysOn
but I've not found the component required online ... not that I've tried
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hard :-(
(I was going to try the 1st. mod as the non-mod wasn't there when I last=20
looked)

One thing to be aware of......

I lost one drive full of data (had to reformat it) when I was copying to
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slug and it powered down halfway through copying as I'd set a time to=20
powerdown in the bios .. before I realised it didn't then repower up. I=20
wouldn't use this option again !!. Also although it still pings OK.. the
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front end GUI (normal linksys firmware) does tend to crash about once a=20
week - so you lose the shares and so I need to perform a fundamental
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reset on the unit (turn it off and on again to you and me)


HTH

Davey





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From: "Ben McCormack" <yahoogroup@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Which NAS Box?


>I have had a look around and found the Linksys NSLU2.
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> With a hacked firmware it should fit the bill.
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> Has anyone used one of these?
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