[Joe]

Here is something I got in my email, enjoy:

Hey Joe-

I enjoyed your article on how to hack a Meridian Data Snap Server. Those things are a true walk down memory lane.

For your information, we use a heavily customized version of FreeBSD as the core OS. In the older models, the bootstrap is indeed located in the flash on the board. Keep in mind (from a MFG perspective) that these were designed in the days when flash was cheaper than disk space.

Please let your readers know not to try this upgrade on a newer Snap server because the OS is now mostly on the drives.

Drew
Product Manager
Quantum NAS Divison

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I forgot to mention that we do now offer a Java virtual machine on Snaps, so you can turn it into a DB server, web server etc if you'd like. See the www.gnu.org site for a list of open source Java apps.

Drew