Hack a Snap Sever 1000? - Page 30

blue68f100 · 10-01-2005, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poogles_uk

Just did a port scan:
Started scan
192.168.0.200:21 -> ftp (File Transfer [Control]) -> 220 Service ready for new user...
192.168.0.200:110 -> pop3 (Post Office Protocol - Version 3) -> -ERR AVG POP3 Proxy Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!..
192.168.0.200:80 -> www-http (World Wide Web HTTP) -> HTTP/1.0 200 OK..Server: Snap Appliance, Inc./4.0.860..Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15..Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:06:02 GMT....<HTML>.<HEAD>.<TITLE>Snap Server SNAPSERVER [Home]</TITLE>.<S
192.168.0.200:111 -> sunrpc (SUN Remote Procedure Call)
192.168.0.200:139 -> netbios-ssn (NETBIOS Session Service)
Stopping scan

Anyone got any ideas about putting telnet onto this?

On most unix system, telnet is controlled with the inetd demon, throught the "inetd.conf" file located in /etc. Looking through my 2200 I was unable find them using the "ls" command. The /debug/info lists info inet. No telnet or inetd comands listed. PuTTY connection was refused.

I have the early BIOS update for the 2000, v 1.0 or 1.1 to 1.2.180 and the OS from v1 to v2 if needed. I believe you can jump from v2 to v4 directly. But the bios must be at least 1.2.180.

Has anyone had any problems when they change the CR2032 battery in the 1100/2200 models?

David

misterbill · 10-06-2005, 08:15 PM

Hello everyone.
I have a little bad news for the forum.
I am going to have to shut down the ftp site ftp://***************/

here in the very near future.
If there is anyone else that can host the files that would be great.
I'll leave them up for about one more week then it's gotta go.

Sorry!!

re3dyb0y · 10-07-2005, 01:40 PM

Ok, cheers for letting us know misterbill

Thankyou very very much for this.

Can anyone help us out?

I think i may be able to get some free space, but it will be b/w limited.

Cant see changin the battery causnig many problems than losing time and date. However, shares and stuff *could* be lost.

Telnet, we really need to be able to customise the O/S. Anyone know how to decompile the .sup files??

Sam

blue68f100 · 10-07-2005, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by misterbill

Hello everyone.
I have a little bad news for the forum.
I am going to have to shut down the ftp site ftp://****************/

here in the very near future.
If there is anyone else that can host the files that would be great.
I'll leave them up for about one more week then it's gotta go.

Sorry!!

Misterbill,

Sorry to hear that the snap site is being shut down.

Thankyou so much for your support and kindness for hosting the snap site.
With out there would be alot of expensive door stops.

I downloaded every thing from the site last month, It apears to be around 188 meg, is this correct?

My isp limits me to 25 meg, well below whats needed.

But I will be able to send mail attachments if need be.

Thank you again for your kind support.

David
Blue68F100

re3dyb0y · 10-08-2005, 02:33 AM

I too believe i have everything, but will check over the weekend

David, if i am able to get some more webspace, would you be able to help me with uploading all the files back up?

Cheers

Sam

blue68f100 · 10-08-2005, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poogles_uk

I too believe i have everything, but will check over the weekend

David, if i am able to get some more webspace, would you be able to help me with uploading all the files back up?

Cheers

Sam

Yes I would gladly help you with the upload. My upload speed is 750k.

David

re3dyb0y · 10-08-2005, 09:15 AM

Nice one

I have only got 256 upload, but it does do around 300 kbps

Just need to check that i have go them all. i think i have most things

Sam

re3dyb0y · 10-08-2005, 12:22 PM

My ISP gives 250mb, dont know about bandwith.

Will have a look

Also, found another site with a 1gb storage, 100gb montly space, but 15mb max file size

Will keep looking

conehead · 10-09-2005, 04:28 AM

I have a SNAP 2200 that was running in Mirrored Mode when the backup drive failed. I backed up the data with retrospect, found a duplicate Maxtor drive model p/n 5325301593 mx4k080h4 80 gb d540x-4k and replaced it in the snap server. When I tried to reformat the primary drive from the config mode it still indicates the backup disk has failed and primary is ok, the new drive shows up as a single disk (OK). Being a newbie to hacking I’m looking for a step by step to enable the drives to function in Mirror mode again. I’m more a mac guy, but I have a windows machine and have downloaded winhex, and bios bin files. Do I need to upgrade my BIOs before starting? Not to clear on how to dup the drive bios on to the new one or clear the error message.
Thanks much for anyone who can help. Here's the info on the device:

Model Software Hardware BIOS
2000 series 3.4.803 (US) 2.0.3 3.4.758

Disk Status Total<MB> Free<MB> Files
Drive2 - Single disk OK 74,799 74,724 9
Mirror - disk 1 Data protection disabled. Backup disk has failed. Primary disk is OK. 74,799 74,724 25

10/08/2005 14:23:17 Command: config devices info

Logical Device: 10006 Position: 0 JBOD Size (KB): 32296 Free (KB): 22480 Private Mounted
Label:Private Contains system files only
Unique Id: 0x2AF2C89A4663F7BB Mount: /priv Index: 12 Order: 0
Partition: 10006 Physical: 10007 FS Size (KB): 32768 Starting Blk: 515 Private
Physical: 10007 Drive Slot: 0 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed

Logical Device: 10016 Position: 0 JBOD Size (KB): 32296 Free (KB): 22368 Private Mounted
Label:Private Contains system files only
Unique Id: 0x60BB81E71853BA45 Mount: /pri2 Index: 13 Order: 1
Partition: 10016 Physical: 10017 FS Size (KB): 32768 Starting Blk: 515 Private
Physical: 10017 Drive Slot: 2 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed

Logical Device: 10010 Position: 1 JBOD Size (KB): 76595040 Free (KB): 76517928 Public Mounted
Label

rive2 Single disk
Unique Id: 0x60BB81E71853BA45 Mount: /2 Index: 2 Order: 2
Partition: 10010 Physical: 10017 FS Size (KB): 77656968 Starting Blk: 61583 Public
Physical: 10017 Drive Slot: 2 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed

re3dyb0y · 10-09-2005, 04:46 AM

You need to reinit the drives to remove the cracked raid.

When the 2nd drive is sorted out, the mirror can be re-enabled in the web admin panel

Winhex isn't needed, adn which bin files have you downloaded for the bios updates?

re3dyb0y · 10-09-2005, 04:50 AM

config devices format 10000 /reinit

There is an item that can be run from the debug page that involves all, will unmount, and remount the hard drives. This should remove the 'cracked raid' and reformat the new drive

http://snapserver/config/debug

Someone else should be able to tell you with more info, i cant remember, if you just need to do it for each drive

But im sure there is an all option or something similar

conehead · 10-09-2005, 05:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poogles_uk

You need to reinit the drives to remove the cracked raid.

When the 2nd drive is sorted out, the mirror can be re-enabled in the web admin panel

Winhex isn't needed, adn which bin files have you downloaded for the bios updates?

I downloaded snap2200.bin which was modified Nov 2004.

conehead · 10-09-2005, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poogles_uk

config devices format 10000 /reinit

There is an item that can be run from the debug page that involves all, will unmount, and remount the hard drives. This should remove the 'cracked raid' and reformat the new drive

http://snapserver/config/debug

This is the one that worked for me:
config devices config individual 50000 force

Thanks for the help. I'm back on line.

blue68f100 · 10-09-2005, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by conehead

This is the one that worked for me:
config devices config individual 50000 force

Thanks for the help. I'm back on line.

I received this procedure from a Service tech that use to work for snap appliance. I used it on mine. Dive will generaly be 10000 or 10010

MIRROR REPAIR FOR ORPHAN

1.Data should remain but as precaution backup your data.
2.Execute the following command from the ipaddress/config/debug web page.
Note: DD is the number of the problem hard disk.
co de format 100DD /reinit
(After reboot, this configures 100DD as a SINGLE drive and FORMATS it.)
3.Reboot the Snap server.
4.After the ORPHANED disk is formatted, execute this command from the ipaddress/config/debug page.
co de config mirror 100SS 100DD
SS is the source disk, DD is the destination disk.
(This step mirrors the drive with data to the drive without data.)
5.Reboot the Snap. If everything works according to plan, the View Disk Status
page should report ?Rebuilding backup disk? when it comes back online.

David

kogvos · 10-14-2005, 04:06 AM

Any Snap 4400 experts in the house? I've just got one without drives and while it appears to fire up OK, I just can't get into it. I've run the Snap program which sends out discovery requests.

I've tried the reset button which doesn't behave as expected as it doesn't reboot as the admin manual says but does seem to put it into maintenance mode - I still can't access it. Both ethernet connections seem OK with the occasional activity flash but it can only be configured using port 1.

I've put a spare 40g drive into it to see if I can format it but the other 3 slots are empty at the moment. I would have thought I would still be able to configure it without drive in it.

Regards,

Jamie

Any ideas's

blue68f100 · 10-14-2005, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kogvos

Any Snap 4400 experts in the house? I've just got one without drives and while it appears to fire up OK, I just can't get into it. I've run the Snap program which sends out discovery requests.

I've tried the reset button which doesn't behave as expected as it doesn't reboot as the admin manual says but does seem to put it into maintenance mode - I still can't access it. Both ethernet connections seem OK with the occasional activity flash but it can only be configured using port 1.

I've put a spare 40g drive into it to see if I can format it but the other 3 slots are empty at the moment. I would have thought I would still be able to configure it without drive in it.

Regards,

Jamie

Any ideas's

Jamie,

On the newer snap the OS resides on the hard drives. So you are missing the OS needed to boot. You will need to copy the boot trackes over, then reinit /format the drive. Most use Digital Dolly on the Knoppix Disk to do this.

Blue68F100

2monty · 10-18-2005, 10:30 PM

Hello,
I have a vintage Meridian Snap 2000 S/N 26k. I am looking to put 2 120GB drives into it. Right now the software is limiting the HD to 8GB.

software 1.1.157 - hardware 1.1.0 - board# 26xxx - Aug 27 1998 16:13:36

bios: v1.0.077 Wed Apr 01 17:26:02 1998

Here are the specs on the software. From what I have read I need to update the bios then the software. I think I have the correct software but I cannot find a bios update. If anyone knows where to get this please let me know.

Thanks,
Mike

re3dyb0y · 10-19-2005, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2monty

Hello,
I have a vintage Meridian Snap 2000 S/N 26k. I am looking to put 2 120GB drives into it. Right now the software is limiting the HD to 8GB.

software 1.1.157 - hardware 1.1.0 - board# 26xxx - Aug 27 1998 16:13:36

bios: v1.0.077 Wed Apr 01 17:26:02 1998

Here are the specs on the software. From what I have read I need to update the bios then the software. I think I have the correct software but I cannot find a bios update. If anyone knows where to get this please let me know.

Thanks,
Mike

Yup, you need a couple of versions to get updated.

To V2 to update file system, then to v3/v4

John Woods · 10-19-2005, 09:52 AM

I have replaced both drives in the snap server 2200 and now I can not access the web interface. The original drives are totally pooched, dead as a door nail. Is there a way to get this unit up and running it appears that the "OS" was running off the old drives?

Does someone have the OS and instructions to rebuild?

meister_sd · 10-19-2005, 10:31 AM

Hi,

You're right, on the 2200 the OS is on the drives. A few pages back is detailed instructions on how to get your snap back up and running. You will need the Knoppix CD and the image snap2200.bin. From there you image the bin file to your new HD (just one) then put it back into the 2200 and reboot. Put the 2nd HD in after the first has initialized and formatted.

-Mike

blue68f100 · 10-19-2005, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2monty

Hello,
I have a vintage Meridian Snap 2000 S/N 26k. I am looking to put 2 120GB drives into it. Right now the software is limiting the HD to 8GB.

software 1.1.157 - hardware 1.1.0 - board# 26xxx - Aug 27 1998 16:13:36

bios: v1.0.077 Wed Apr 01 17:26:02 1998

Here are the specs on the software. From what I have read I need to update the bios then the software. I think I have the correct software but I cannot find a bios update. If anyone knows where to get this please let me know.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike,

You will be required to upgrade the bios to v 1.2.180, before you can upgrading the OS to v2.

David

David

JPB · 10-19-2005, 06:17 PM

Have a 4100 here, still OS 3.x
Machine went down with flickering system-LED, called Adaptec. Machine has no warranty left, so they told me, they won't repair.

Nice way of doing business, but that underlines what I think of this company for several years now - /dev/null is the best place for them. Support told me too, that the drives have XFS - but I was unable to mount them on Linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD - will try further, perhaps they use a rare partition-scheme. I doubt, that the machine has a "normal" BIOS, I suggest them to have something like OpenFirmware or simular.
I removed all drives (4x40) and machine came up again, now I try with 4x120 WD - new RAID5 with one spare is resyncing atm, guess that might take some hours.. ^^
I'm still interested in getting this machine to boot Linux or a more "normal" BSD like OpenBSD or NetBSD, but without more information it's hard to predict if we ever see a Snap booting a custom Linux. The machines has standard PC-hardware, so it should even boot with a vanilla 2.4.x or 2.6.x-kernel. Still the BIOS is a big "?"...
If I find the time, I will look into these .sup-files to get any information about the BIOS or the booting process, all we need is a bootloder..
I did not test 48bitLBA yet but I doubt Adaptec will ever provide a BIOS-update for the Promise-controllers.. :/

2monty · 10-19-2005, 10:11 PM

[quote=blue68f100]
Mike,

You will be required to upgrade the bios to v 1.2.180, before you can upgrading the OS to v2.

David
[/QUOTE

Thanks for the info, any idea where I can get that upgrade?? The support pages at Adaptec leave a lot to be desired...

Mike

JPB · 10-20-2005, 07:01 AM

Well.. RAID5 built without problems (2+1+1 = 240 netto + spare), then updated to OS4. Did some stress testing since with Helios Lan Test (100 times reading/writing 300MB etc.) with no problems, write rate 4,5MB/s, read rate 7,8MB/s which is ok regarding the old hardware. But..

Before the machine went down I made a copy of all stuff (105GB) via AFP. Now, with the new OS4, I cannot save the files back - several errors complaining about folders not found, illegal filenames etc. etc. pp. No idea what they did to the AFPd, but it is complety shit now

, useless in an AFP-enviroment. Helios AFP test fails 50% of the newer AFP-features. If anyone plans to use these machines with AFP - forget it. Even a dumb Windows server is a better choice.

FirebirdTN · 10-21-2005, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JPB

... Machine has no warranty left, so they told me, they won't repair.

Nice way of doing business, but that underlines what I think of this company for several years now - /dev/null is the best place for them....:/

LOL, I signed up for this forum JUST to reply to your thread.

We too have a few SNAP servers around here. When we first bought them I thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread. We had one crap out, and sent it back (to then SnapApplicace), and the service was top notch. This was probably a couple years ago.

A while back, I had powered off one of our Snap Servers, and it sat for months, but connected to the network in the powered off state. When I finally went to go and turn it back on, it wouldn't.

I called support (now Adaptec), and in not so many words, I was told to take a flying leap. I am *very* knowledgable with DOS and Windows, but since I do not know unix, FreeBSD, or any of the alternative OSs, there was no way for me to retrieve my data off the drives of the failed SNAP server (drives are probably good, its the electonics that failed). Luckily I had a DVD backup set, so I didn't loose anything.

I had asked Adaptec "what if I had mission critical data on here, I have no way of recovering it"-there response was "you should have a backup" to which I replied "but these Snap server *HAVE* redundant backups; that is one of the selling points you tout in your sales brochure". Hmmmm...

Yeah, I could probably finger it out if I had the time to tinker, but I don't. So I have recently put together a simple Win2K Pro box that acts as a file server with RAID 1 array that provides email failure notification that has more storage capacity than all the Snaps we have combined, and have recently put all our Snap servers on ebay except for a couple small ones (1000 and 1100).

Sorry so long, I was just completely pissed off at Adaptec's attitude towards SnapAppliance/Quantums customers. I can't believe they wouldn't even take a look at it FOR A FEE. We would have gladly paid to have our server repaired, but their stance was "out of warranty, throw it away".

Again, way to do business. Don't get me wrong, I still love the Snap server with the features it provides in the small physical footprint it provides it in, but since Adaptec now owns the product, we have purchased our last one, and definately will not be buying any more.

Just like JPB said, you can put together a box (using Win2k, Linux, whatever suits you) that will do the same thing, and not have to worry about "proprietary" file systems when crap hits the fan.

Sorry for my rant...

-Alan

10-06-2005, 08:15 PM	#727
misterbill Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 19	FTP Ste going away. Hello everyone. I have a little bad news for the forum. I am going to have to shut down the ftp site ftp://**************/ here in the very near future. If there is anyone else that can host the files that would be great. I'll leave them up for about one more week then it's gotta go. Sorry!! Last edited by blue68f100; 02-12-2006 at 04:11 PM.*

10-07-2005, 01:40 PM	#728
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	Ok, cheers for letting us know misterbill Thankyou very very much for this. Can anyone help us out? I think i may be able to get some free space, but it will be b/w limited. Cant see changin the battery causnig many problems than losing time and date. However, shares and stuff could be lost. Telnet, we really need to be able to customise the O/S. Anyone know how to decompile the .sup files?? Sam __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-08-2005, 02:33 AM	#730
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	I too believe i have everything, but will check over the weekend David, if i am able to get some more webspace, would you be able to help me with uploading all the files back up? Cheers Sam __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-08-2005, 09:15 AM	#732
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	Nice one I have only got 256 upload, but it does do around 300 kbps Just need to check that i have go them all. i think i have most things Sam __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-08-2005, 12:22 PM	#733
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	My ISP gives 250mb, dont know about bandwith. Will have a look Also, found another site with a 1gb storage, 100gb montly space, but 15mb max file size Will keep looking __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-09-2005, 04:28 AM	#734
conehead Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NY Posts: 3	I have a SNAP 2200 that was running in Mirrored Mode when the backup drive failed. I backed up the data with retrospect, found a duplicate Maxtor drive model p/n 5325301593 mx4k080h4 80 gb d540x-4k and replaced it in the snap server. When I tried to reformat the primary drive from the config mode it still indicates the backup disk has failed and primary is ok, the new drive shows up as a single disk (OK). Being a newbie to hacking I’m looking for a step by step to enable the drives to function in Mirror mode again. I’m more a mac guy, but I have a windows machine and have downloaded winhex, and bios bin files. Do I need to upgrade my BIOs before starting? Not to clear on how to dup the drive bios on to the new one or clear the error message. Thanks much for anyone who can help. Here's the info on the device: Model Software Hardware BIOS 2000 series 3.4.803 (US) 2.0.3 3.4.758 Disk Status Total<MB> Free<MB> Files Drive2 - Single disk OK 74,799 74,724 9 Mirror - disk 1 Data protection disabled. Backup disk has failed. Primary disk is OK. 74,799 74,724 25 10/08/2005 14:23:17 Command: config devices info Logical Device: 10006 Position: 0 JBOD Size (KB): 32296 Free (KB): 22480 Private Mounted Label:Private Contains system files only Unique Id: 0x2AF2C89A4663F7BB Mount: /priv Index: 12 Order: 0 Partition: 10006 Physical: 10007 FS Size (KB): 32768 Starting Blk: 515 Private Physical: 10007 Drive Slot: 0 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed Logical Device: 10016 Position: 0 JBOD Size (KB): 32296 Free (KB): 22368 Private Mounted Label:Private Contains system files only Unique Id: 0x60BB81E71853BA45 Mount: /pri2 Index: 13 Order: 1 Partition: 10016 Physical: 10017 FS Size (KB): 32768 Starting Blk: 515 Private Physical: 10017 Drive Slot: 2 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed Logical Device: 10010 Position: 1 JBOD Size (KB): 76595040 Free (KB): 76517928 Public Mounted Labelrive2 Single disk Unique Id: 0x60BB81E71853BA45 Mount: /2 Index: 2 Order: 2 Partition: 10010 Physical: 10017 FS Size (KB): 77656968 Starting Blk: 61583 Public Physical: 10017 Drive Slot: 2 IDE Size (KB): 78150656 Fixed

10-09-2005, 04:46 AM	#735
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	You need to reinit the drives to remove the cracked raid. When the 2nd drive is sorted out, the mirror can be re-enabled in the web admin panel Winhex isn't needed, adn which bin files have you downloaded for the bios updates? __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-09-2005, 04:50 AM	#736
re3dyb0y Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 909	config devices format 10000 /reinit There is an item that can be run from the debug page that involves all, will unmount, and remount the hard drives. This should remove the 'cracked raid' and reformat the new drive http://snapserver/config/debug Someone else should be able to tell you with more info, i cant remember, if you just need to do it for each drive But im sure there is an all option or something similar __________________ Snap Server Help Wiki - http://wiki.procooling.com/index.php/Snap_Server Snap Server 2200 v3.4.807 2x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 w/ UNIDFC601512M Replacement Fan "Did you really think it would be that easy??" Other NAS's 1x NSLU2 w/ 512mb Corsair Flash Voyager Running Unslung 6.8b 1x NSLU2 w/ 8Gb LaCie Carte Orange Running Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 250GB LaCie Ethernet Disk Running Windows XP Embedded

10-14-2005, 04:06 AM	#740
kogvos Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brisbane Posts: 4	Any Snap 4400 experts in the house? I've just got one without drives and while it appears to fire up OK, I just can't get into it. I've run the Snap program which sends out discovery requests. I've tried the reset button which doesn't behave as expected as it doesn't reboot as the admin manual says but does seem to put it into maintenance mode - I still can't access it. Both ethernet connections seem OK with the occasional activity flash but it can only be configured using port 1. I've put a spare 40g drive into it to see if I can format it but the other 3 slots are empty at the moment. I would have thought I would still be able to configure it without drive in it. Regards, Jamie Any ideas's

10-18-2005, 10:30 PM	#742
2monty Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WI Posts: 5	Hello, I have a vintage Meridian Snap 2000 S/N 26k. I am looking to put 2 120GB drives into it. Right now the software is limiting the HD to 8GB. software 1.1.157 - hardware 1.1.0 - board# 26xxx - Aug 27 1998 16:13:36 bios: v1.0.077 Wed Apr 01 17:26:02 1998 Here are the specs on the software. From what I have read I need to update the bios then the software. I think I have the correct software but I cannot find a bios update. If anyone knows where to get this please let me know. Thanks, Mike

10-19-2005, 09:52 AM	#744
John Woods Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Belleville Posts: 1	Snap server 2200 I have replaced both drives in the snap server 2200 and now I can not access the web interface. The original drives are totally pooched, dead as a door nail. Is there a way to get this unit up and running it appears that the "OS" was running off the old drives? Does someone have the OS and instructions to rebuild?

10-19-2005, 10:31 AM	#745
meister_sd Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 19	Hi, You're right, on the 2200 the OS is on the drives. A few pages back is detailed instructions on how to get your snap back up and running. You will need the Knoppix CD and the image snap2200.bin. From there you image the bin file to your new HD (just one) then put it back into the 2200 and reboot. Put the 2nd HD in after the first has initialized and formatted. -Mike

10-19-2005, 06:17 PM	#747
JPB Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Posts: 6	Have a 4100 here, still OS 3.x Machine went down with flickering system-LED, called Adaptec. Machine has no warranty left, so they told me, they won't repair. Nice way of doing business, but that underlines what I think of this company for several years now - /dev/null is the best place for them. Support told me too, that the drives have XFS - but I was unable to mount them on Linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD - will try further, perhaps they use a rare partition-scheme. I doubt, that the machine has a "normal" BIOS, I suggest them to have something like OpenFirmware or simular. I removed all drives (4x40) and machine came up again, now I try with 4x120 WD - new RAID5 with one spare is resyncing atm, guess that might take some hours.. ^^ I'm still interested in getting this machine to boot Linux or a more "normal" BSD like OpenBSD or NetBSD, but without more information it's hard to predict if we ever see a Snap booting a custom Linux. The machines has standard PC-hardware, so it should even boot with a vanilla 2.4.x or 2.6.x-kernel. Still the BIOS is a big "?"... If I find the time, I will look into these .sup-files to get any information about the BIOS or the booting process, all we need is a bootloder.. I did not test 48bitLBA yet but I doubt Adaptec will ever provide a BIOS-update for the Promise-controllers.. :/

10-19-2005, 10:11 PM	#748
2monty Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: WI Posts: 5	[quote=blue68f100] Mike, You will be required to upgrade the bios to v 1.2.180, before you can upgrading the OS to v2. David [/QUOTE Thanks for the info, any idea where I can get that upgrade?? The support pages at Adaptec leave a lot to be desired... Mike

10-20-2005, 07:01 AM	#749
JPB Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Earth Posts: 6	Well.. RAID5 built without problems (2+1+1 = 240 netto + spare), then updated to OS4. Did some stress testing since with Helios Lan Test (100 times reading/writing 300MB etc.) with no problems, write rate 4,5MB/s, read rate 7,8MB/s which is ok regarding the old hardware. But.. Before the machine went down I made a copy of all stuff (105GB) via AFP. Now, with the new OS4, I cannot save the files back - several errors complaining about folders not found, illegal filenames etc. etc. pp. No idea what they did to the AFPd, but it is complety shit now , useless in an AFP-enviroment. Helios AFP test fails 50% of the newer AFP-features. If anyone plans to use these machines with AFP - forget it. Even a dumb Windows server is a better choice.

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