Hack a Snap Sever 1000?

[blue68f100]

Could it be related to different mfg and size? Not matched.

[blue68f100]

Good luck, At least you have a spare MB to try.

[re3dyb0y]

Possibly

But i've just had it with the MAxtor in master for a while and its been fine

Except the fallse boot i think i had (cant remember now)

So tommorow i will try a new board, and do the same checks again, if i get false boots i know its a drive


Im planning on getting a 300GB SATA Seagate Drive for my windows server on friday, so i can use that to easily make a backup, then be able to do full sector checks on each drive

As if it is the WD, im not having a WD to replace it. Ill insist on a Seagate 250


I would have the other 80gb if i hadn't had to use it in my brothers pc

I think it is more likely to be the WD, as the maxtors were fine, and its giving similar errors as before, except when not writing!

Will let you know

[re3dyb0y]

Changed it over, and it booted happily!

I'll see how it goes

It also has 3.4.758 bios rather than .703....

I think the shares, users and such are saved on the motherboard....


Will let you know how it goes!


Sam

[re3dyb0y]

Hmm,

On the server log also, its only showing major items, not all the mini steps

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers


Sam

[blue68f100]

You are right with that info stored on the MB, in specific I think it stored in flashram.

[re3dyb0y]

Well its been on bout 4 hours now and its been fine

Usually would've fallen over or done something wrong

[re3dyb0y]

Thats 5 hours and all fine

Going to turn it off for the night as it is rahter noisy, and doesn't make sleeping easy

Will try booting tommorow and such

I think it is solved

If anyone has any ideas about the server log - ie why it isnt showing in detailed information, id be interested to know!

Cheers

Sam

[re3dyb0y]

Thats another 5 hours problem free

Seems like that has sorted it

Wonder what it was??


Sam

[blue68f100]

Don't think its the ram, would have showed up with a single drive. If you have access to a Signature analysis maching, you could compare signatures to your good one. This is one tool that doesn't need ee to operate. It a simple comparison, starting with any 2 points and progressing through the pcb, till you find the problem area. Wish I had one.

[re3dyb0y]

Sounds like a fancy peice of kit!!

Ah well, its not major


Good to have it working again

Just need to think about getting a 2nd WD2500JB for Raid 1 i think


Sam

[dcmcdowell]

I need to get the image for the 1100 as well if anyone is willing. I have a dead drive.
Thanks in advance.

[blue68f100]

If you have a 2200 around use dd to copy the first 25 meg of it.

[nettech]

HELP!!!! I need a copy of SnapOS v4.0.830 for a 1000. I can't upgrade to 4.0.860 until I have a newer version of the OS than what I have.

Thanks for the help in advance.

[re3dyb0y]

Originally Posted by nettech

HELP!!!! I need a copy of SnapOS v4.0.830 for a 1000. I can't upgrade to 4.0.860 until I have a newer version of the OS than what I have.

Thanks for the help in advance.

What version are you currently on?

[dcmcdowell]

Originally Posted by blue68f100

If you have a 2200 around use dd to copy the first 25 meg of it.

I only have the 1100. As stupid as this sounds, I was trying to upgrade the drive and my process was to image the original drive with acronis, (I knew it prob wouldnt work, but I had to try.), and restore onto the larger 200gb drive. I 'imported' the disk into xp and that was that! It wouldnt boot again. If there is another way to fix this problem....Any help would be appreciated.

[dcmcdowell]

Originally Posted by dcmcdowell

I only have the 1100. As stupid as this sounds, I was trying to upgrade the drive and my process was to image the original drive with acronis, (I knew it prob wouldnt work, but I had to try.), and restore onto the larger 200gb drive. I 'imported' the disk into xp and that was that! It wouldnt boot again. If there is another way to fix this problem....Any help would be appreciated.

Please ignore. Thanks blu68 for the help

[blue68f100]

Originally Posted by nettech

HELP!!!! I need a copy of SnapOS v4.0.830 for a 1000. I can't upgrade to 4.0.860 until I have a newer version of the OS than what I have.

Thanks for the help in advance.

If you only need large disk support, 3.4.805 is better on these older units. V4 requires more ram, and runs slower.

[dcmcdowell]

Just curious....has anyone been successfull in installing anything other than Snap OS on one? (1100). netBSD perhaps?

[re3dyb0y]

Not that we know of

Cause there isn't any easy way to install it

The sup files are difficult to extract, but would have similar boot tracks and such


And with someones 4*** experience of seeing one post using a low profile PCI card, that could be possible

[dcmcdowell]

Thanks again for all the help and images needed to fix my problems. The 1100 booted (thank goodness) after I restored the image. I have another question though...The image I used was 'boot tracks' from v3.4.805, yet Assist tells me that I am running v3.4.790. When I formatted my 200gb disk, it says I have approx. 1gb of disk space. Assuming that I need the upgraded version to recognize this large disk, how can I get it?

[blue68f100]

Read my file transfer test results on the FreeNAS vs Snap 2200.
FreeNAS is built with FreeBSD 6.1 kernel. Don't know if transfering a HD with it over to the Snap 1100 would work. The 1100 uses a std boot loader, so it may. I think it required 16 meg of disk space. Don't know how much ram. Will have to check.

[nettech]

Originally Posted by re3dyb0y

What version are you currently on?

3.4

[blue68f100]

What version of 1000 do you have?
Can you connect to the server with no HD installed?

I like 3.4.805 on the older models for large disk support. Runs better, less overhead.

[nettech]

Originally Posted by blue68f100

If you only need large disk support, 3.4.805 is better on these older units. V4 requires more ram, and runs slower.

Can somebody email me a copy of 3.4.805?

Thanks