NAS-Central & Foonas Weblog

The OpenWRT-Storlink project has been added to SourceForge, MRT users can see the project page there for more information.

Another release of OpenWRT Kamikaze trunk for MRT Communications GigaNAS is available here – this has 944 packages currently available for this platform!

In addition a useful article on extending the Webif^2 technology in the OpenWRT distribution is available here.

linuxdevices.com features an article about the ongoing things regarding the Marvell Orion Linux kernel port. It gives some good information about who is involved.

Read more here.

smallnetbuilder.com definitely provides the best NAS reviews, especially because the reviewer (mostly the well known Jim Buzbee) always takes a glance at the mainboard and tries to get shell access. Always checkout the “Under the covers” page to gather some hardware information.

Take a look at the recent reviews at smallnetbuilder.com.

• Buffalo Linkstation EX aka LS-LGL
  
• Zyxel NSA-220
• QNAP TS-409
• Buffalo Linkstation Pro DUO
• Promise SmartStor
• HP MediaSmart Server EX470/EX475 (Windows based)
• QNAP TS-209 Pro
• Synology Disk Station DS107 series

See the YouTube video Enable Debugmode in lsupdater.exe for information on how to do this.

This utility works for all the Buffalo machines in the current arm9 range (LS Pro v1/v2 , LS Live v1/v2, Tera Pro v2, Tera Live).

After moving the buffalo forums to the new place it was time to make the wiki authentication independent from the buffalo forums.

Therefore a new forum at

• http://forums.nas-central.org/

was created. Notice that forumsections for HP, Iomega, Lacie, Netgear and Zyxel were created as these vendors do not have any user driven forums for their boxes. I added one for Linksys so EFG250/NAS200 owners have a place for discussion as well.

The main reasons for creating this forums are:

• Hardware mods (serial/jtag/…) can be investigated & discussed in the hardware sections
• In the kernel development section it can be discussed how to create support for SoC X/Board design Y in the vanilla kernel independent from the special hardware. Many boxes share the same SoC (Marvell orion, Storlink gemini)

Read the announcement here.

OpenWRT for MRT Communications GigaNAS is now available for you to enjoy – more information available here and build information is available here.

The definitive guide to unbricking your MRT Communications NAS device is now available here at the NAS-Central MRT wiki.