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John Abreau wrote: > The box came without a hard drive. I installed a new hard drive in it > initially, and it booted into its flash ROM. So what mechanism does it provide to interact with it when it is in this state with a raw drive? Telenet? Web UI? Can you interact with it if the drive is disconnected? That would at least confirm that the Flash image is still functioning normally. > I was unable to load the supplied tarball... Can you elaborate on that some more? I take it it isn't designed to work like a typical turn-key Bring-Your-Own-Disk (BYOD) NAS box, where you just plug in a disk, and it either automatically, or via a UI operation, partitions and formats the disk? Instead they have a portion of the OS on the hard drive and its up to the customer to load that onto the drive? The right way, in my opinion, to build a small, low-power NAS box is to put the full OS into flash (given that you can get 4 GB cards for $50 these days and a more modest 1 GB card for next to nothing, this is easily doable), and preferably use a removable CF card, which can be attached to any PC as an IDE drive using a low-cost adapter. If the box can accept multiple IDE drives, you might want to consider using a CF adapter as described above, providing you can hack it to bypass booting from the internal flash. > I shouldn't need to overwrite the entire 250 GB. I would have > thought that 1024 bytes was sufficient, but I can certainly try > zeroing a larger amount. What would you suggest: 10K? 100K? 10K is probably sufficient, but it'll only take seconds to zero the first megabyte, so might as well do that. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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