Re: Watchdog software?

[LeeUKHA <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why are you using NTFS?
Why not just use the native EXT3 filesystem? If you need to use the
drive on a Windows box, just install the Ext3 IFS and you'll be able to
read/write the drive.



> 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) and
> .APE music collection that I keep on the USBs
> Your mileage may wary though.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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> On 30/04/07, Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>>   As part of on going drive to reduce my electric bill (currently
paying
>> £111 a month!) I'm thinking of getting some kind of low
powered NAS device
>> 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 then
>> 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
>>
>>
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