Re: Watchdog software?

["Davey B" <db1001ster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I'm not impressed with my NSLU2. Two things....
If it's not hacked (and mine isn't apart from the latest linksys firmware)
it has corrupted two NTFS formatted USB drives. I "think" it's
caused by
turning off the NSLU2 when the drive is connected to "disk2" on
the NSLU2. =
I
think from memory NTFS is not supported on disk2 ... but seems to work..
apart from when you turn it off or reboot. I would of liked to add a simple
plug timer to turn the whole thing off.. but I haven't managed to get the
power on switch hack working..... so it's sitting in the loft with nothing
connected. I'm thinking of going down the samba and mini-itx board route as
I now distrust the slug. I streamed only to two devices (one dvd and one
music)over wireless and this seemed to work fine for my DVD (4 gig .ISO)
an=
d
.APE music collection that I keep on the USBs
Your mileage may wary though.

Hope that helps.


On 30/04/07, Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   As part of on going drive to reduce my electric bill (currently
paying
> =A3111 a month!) I'm thinking of getting some kind of low powered NAS
dev=
ice
> to use
> as a server for video and music.
>
> Currently all the movies and mp3's reside in the MP3 jukebox machine
(old
> 800 Duron running XP + XLobby). If I can move the data off onto a NAS
the=
n
> this machine can go into suspend/hibernate mode when no one is playing
> music.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonable, cheap NAS ?
>
> I'm currently looking at the NSLU2 "slug". Its cheap and
plenty of hacks.=
.
> My main concern is bandwidth.. when playing movies to multiple XBOXES
>
> Marcus
>=20
>


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