Hack a Snap Sever 1000?

[blue68f100]

The new mac's are runing unix (freebsd). Just need to get into terminal mode. All should work the same.

[re3dyb0y]

Ah rete

Fair Enough

45 Pages....



I thought the whole mac os was just a BSD derivative

[turbops]

Ok.

This is what i found. I hve messed with my 2 WD 120-gig drives almost all day, Odd but the snap server never did find them. Oh well I must move on.

Since my Snap did see my Segate 120-gig drive i decided to move on with this drive. I have been messing with my Segate 120-gig drive for hours. Originally no matter what i did the Snap 1000 was only seeing the drive as a 40-gig. At the time i was using the following command while in "Debug" mode per all the instructions.

config devices format 10000 /reinit.

still nothing. only showing 40-gig. After looking at the following link provided a few hours ago for a unrelated issue.

Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server

I happend to notice a diffrent command line.

co de format 10000 /reinit

At this point I was willing to try anything. As to my GREAT supprise this command line worked. How off is that! I have since gotten greedy again and purchased a 250-gig WD hard drive for both my Snap 1000 and Snap 1100, Upgraded and both are running great sofar.

Just a quick note.

I used DOLLY to copy over the info from the original Snap drive to the new drives. I got extramly tired of watching this program run for hours and hours. I took some more of your posts info about only needing the first 10-meg of data off the drives. Much faster and was done in minutes instead of hours. here is the command line I used for Dolly.

DOLLY xhd128:0-1000000 xhd129:1000000 /i

I am still looking for Snap OS of 3.4.805 or the newer 4. if any one would like to share.

[blue68f100]

turbops,

Generally we copy the first 25 meg. The upgrade file is 29 meg. Your cmd line is a little different from the PC. I assume 128 and 129 are the drive ID, what does the /i mean? V2 10000 uses the same image file as the 1100 and 2200's. There is a difference in the OS's with units that have flashram.

Which flavor of OS-X do you have? 10.4

[turbops]

Question.

Since I only copied the first 10-meg is that going to pose a problem. Sofar all seems to be A ok. I have not put them 100% in the network and copied my file on them yet.

As for the 128 and 129. Yes these are the drive ID's. 128-Master and 129-Slave. the /I in DOLLY is Ignore errors. I was told to sure the /I in case there are some bad clusters on the HD.

For the cloning i was using a MS-DOS boot disk with DOLLY.

[re3dyb0y]

The first 10mb contains boot tracks and so, so its used to get the unit booting

IF you do a co de config /reinit or whatever, that will reformat it and make sure its all snappy

Then just stick a OS update on and your fine!

[turbops]

I was informed most copy the first 25-meg not 10-meg. I have since figured out what is missing. It is not service effecting in any way. I am missing the Snap Help files. Then again the help files were just no help to me anyway so its really no big loss.

[re3dyb0y]

Mine has been Panicking again.....

Link light on, system light flashing really quickly....

Unable to access it!

[blue68f100]

re3dyb0y, You have been having problems with that 2200. In your highly secure/confidential 1000v2 files setup instructions, there is a procedure for clearing panic mode. It is for when OS install fails.

[blue68f100]

Originally Posted by turbops

I was informed most copy the first 25-meg not 10-meg. I have since figured out what is missing. It is not service effecting in any way. I am missing the Snap Help files. Then again the help files were just no help to me anyway so its really no big loss.

If you do any updates to the OS you should get them back.

[re3dyb0y]

Originally Posted by blue68f100

re3dyb0y, You have been having problems with that 2200. In your highly secure/confidential 1000v2 files setup instructions, there is a procedure for clearing panic mode. It is for when OS install fails.

Is there?

I think i need to have a look see

Can you email me where incase i cant find it

EDIT: Where am i looking david?


I've only been having problems since i changed to this WD2500JB

[re3dyb0y]

The Model 1000 is unique in that it’s operating system resides on the hard drive.

Backs up what we thought

[re3dyb0y]

Just ran it for a while with just the 250 turned on and its fine

Will try just the 80

Then try swapping the mobo with both in

[re3dyb0y]

Just had it on with just the 80 and its fine

Ill try both in again and see

And if it crashes, will try my 2nd mobo



EDIT: Im thinking it is the motherboard, as it seems not to want to boot sometimes with 2 drives.... Never had that with 1 drive connected

[jontz]

I don't know much about the 2200's. Do they have 2 IDE headers on the mobo or is it one cable with 2 IDE connectors on it like you would find in a PC? I am just wondering if you possibly have a bad IDE cable. Sounds stupid, but just a thought...

[blue68f100]

jontz, the 2200 has 2 promise controllers. Each drive is independent. I think the same board can be used is the 4200. The cables are only 2 - 3" long. If it was a cable problem I would suspect it would report a drive problem. He has 2 different mfg and drive sizes, the reason he is in JBOD config, Instead of a RAID 0 or 1. I was wondering if he was having a cooling problem.

[re3dyb0y]

Originally Posted by blue68f100

jontz, the 2200 has 2 promise controllers. Each drive is independent. I think the same board can be used is the 4200. The cables are only 2 - 3" long. If it was a cable problem I would suspect it would report a drive problem. He has 2 different mfg and drive sizes, the reason he is in JBOD config, Instead of a RAID 0 or 1. I was wondering if he was having a cooling problem.

Fan is fine

It is fine with either drive independantly

So im now trying the 250 plugged in on IDE and power, and the maxtor just on power....

I could try putting that other fan on, just its not very good on the outside!

[re3dyb0y]

Most of the times when it crashes im getting the

F Call Stack :
$00105131
$002D1454
$002D8496
$002DF71A
$002B2187
$002B0957
$002BC3D6
$002BD7B6
$002B1EDF
$002B07E5
$002BC2B4
$002B0AAC
$0010413C
$001041F6
================================
System 3/18/2006 5:24:36 PM
F PANIC : Maximum yield time exceeded at $002BCEC4 System 3/18/2006 5:24:36 PM

Again




I wonder if it is thed drive? Does it not like the WD2500JB??? I think i will need to do a block check on it to see if its bad also

[re3dyb0y]

Right

LEft it for a while with the 250 on both, and the 80 just powered

Seems fine

Will try changing the boards

[blue68f100]

There are 2 different version of the 1000. V1 has the OS stored in flashram. V2 is like the 1100 with OS stored on the HD. Like there are 2 different version of the 2000. The only difference is hardware setup SIMMS vs DIMMS memory chips. Both store OS in flashram.

Call stack is generally a memory location, cpu cache or ram. But it said max time execed, which could be a problem with a controller board on one of the drives. If I had to guess it would be the Maxtor.

I had ram fail on one of my seagate drives, that was in my 2000, as a result of a fan failure. I actually lost both drives. Some reason they did not like the execesive temp.

[re3dyb0y]

Yeah, its either that or the controllers or something on the main board

Thinking about it, i had plugged the Maxtor into the primary ide slot, i will try it just in the secondary and see what happens.... Cause it was fine in the primary, so it could be the motherboard....

I cant remember what was the stated problem with the mobo. As with both in it sometimes fails to boot

If it fails to boot proparly first time with a drive just ont he 2nd, i think it is the board

[blue68f100]

Mine is hard to start too, but its the switch. I have to wiggle for it to start some times. It is normal to hold the power button for 5 sec before starting. Mine runs 24/7 powered from my ups unit.

[re3dyb0y]

I dont mean that

I mean it starts up, but doesn't proparly boot - Ie become accessible, and the link doesn't become active

Not hard to turn on! Lol

Just changed the drive positions and when first booting the boot failed!



And im getting these Maximun Yield errors on shutdown

Im not sure if these shutdowns when it tries to restart to recover from the errors...

Will try the other board tonight/tommorow

[blue68f100]

That indicates damaged boot tracks, or os. Do you have another drive that you can load the image file on?

[re3dyb0y]

I could

But the thing is that i haven't had any problems with either drive seperately...

so its Really rather strange

I will try the other board and see. Cause i dont think i ever/only rarely had that with the old 2 80GB's


It seems to crash when i haven't been on the web panel...