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I had to modify the NSLU2 I was trying to use as a fileserver to
always stay on by adding a resistor to the circuitry so it always
comes on when power is applied - I found one web site that gave me
some clues on how to make this modification but I had to have some
knowledgeable technician make the modification slightly differently.
This voids your warranty but in my case I needed to be sure the NSLU2
could turn on by itself after a power outage since I was planning on
using it as an unattended fileserver - I don't know why Linksys made
it the way they did since even for personal use you wouldn't want it
to not come back automatically when there is a power hit. I also had
to use the unslung firmware and format the flash drive I was using as
EXT3 (normally only a hard drive can be formatted as EXT3 by the stock
firmware) before I could get reliable large file tranfers. Hopefully
now it will work OK - I have yet to test it long term as a fileserver
to know if it really is going to be any good but the size and the fact
that with a USB flash it has no moving parts that can fail was what I
was after. I am sure eventually somebody will hack this device into
being even more useful or some other company will make a similiar
device for about the same price that doesn't have the same limitations
that require these workarounds.
argerbarger@hotmail.com (Bob) wrote in message news:<4f65c77b.0410141334.a3c9664@posting.google.com>...
> thebitbucket@attbi.com (ozonepark) wrote in message news:<4aba9161.0410112145.776fd366@posting.google.com>...
> > I hooked up a compact flash reader to my NSLU2. The problem is when I
> > remove the card the NSLU2 get upset and its little disk light flashes.
> > At that point it will not read any flash cards until in disconnect and
> > reconnect the USB cable. Has anyone experienced this?
> >
> > Overall, I'm not too impressed with the NSLU2. It needs to be hand
> > rebooted after a power failure. I spoke to Linksys about this and
> > they admit it is a problem. It also take forever to boot. It is not
> > to speedy. But by far its biggest problem is it won't accept FAT32 or
> > NTFS volumes.
> >
> > Anyone else using this device having similar issues?
>
> After years of building PCs to be file servers and trying to reduce
> noise and heat, I'm really happy with my NSLU2. On the other hand, I
> don't usually use flash memory in the Disk 2 slot. One reason is that
> I now have the server tucked away in a cabinet and drives attached to
> both USB ports, but even before that, the instructions said that you
> had to power down the NSLU2 to insert the flash...I did that once with
> a pen drive, but it seemed pretty worthless. There's also some
> utility that you can install if you are using flash drives enough to
> warrant it. That particular feature seems like one of those marketing
> things that looks good in a short blurb in the brochure, but that the
> product development guys hope no one ever uses.
>
> As far as your boot problem, I now have a 160GB and a 120GB drive
> attached to my NSLU2. There has only been one time that my house took
> a power hit and the NSLU2 (which was not on an UPC at the time) went
> down while my computer stayed on (my computer is a laptop so the
> battery kept it running). Since my music library is on one of the
> drives, I noticed it went down immediately. I didn't really pay close
> attention - I was checking the drive often as I was a little worried
> that my files would be screwed up, but I would guess that it took less
> than 30 seconds for it to come back up...which I thought was actually
> pretty fast considering it had to do a filesystem integrity check.
>
> As you can tell, I'm a huge fan of the NSLU2. Lot's of storage, no
> fan, the USB bus is plenty fast enough since I'm going over a 100Mb
> network to get to it and it's running Linux with the EXT3 filesystem
> so I don't worry about reliability.
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