Linux distro on NSA325

[astrakid]

raid1 is not an option - because deleted files will be deleted immediately on both drives. i want to have a backup via hardlink-backups in place...

regards,
astrakid

[astrakid]

just read your "edit".

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')raid is not required. You can also create the necessary paritions and system files on hdd2 and the system will still boot if you swap the drive positions.

[jeajea]

Any progress?

[WarheadsSE]

I don't have one to base off of, but I could be enticed to take a preemptive shot before I get one

[jeajea]

According to the Smallnetbuilder review it has a 1.6 GHz Marvel Kirkwood processor and a USB 3 port.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... ed?start=1

Otherwise it is similar to the NSA320/310.
I bought a 325 when Newegg had them on sale for $120.
It would be much more useful for me with a USB wireless adapter.

[WarheadsSE]

I know exactly what it is

[WarheadsSE]

Guess who had one donated? But that damned MCU watchdog.. Arg.

[prokrypt]

Woof.
My RPi is now a permanent accessory to my NSA325, in order to help it boot whenever there's a power outage

[raumzeit]

Any way how I can contribute to a board file for NSA325?

I found that for the NSA310 recent kernel versions use a device tree file, should this be done for the NSA325 as well? I dont know, however, whether or not uboot on the NSA325 supports that or if it actually is required to support that, I am a total noob in this area.

However, I made a largescale diff between the Zyxel patched linux 2.6.31.8 and the official 2.6.31.8 kernel. Well, Zyxel applied a hell of a patch to get their NAS working... From this patch I tried to figure out what they are doing on init of the NSA325 board, but the amount of code i somewhat overwhelming...

If I can assist in the progress to get the NSA325 working smoothly with alarm please let me know.

cheers

raumzeit

[WarheadsSE]

Right now the biggest issue is the cold boot MCU watchdog. Once we're past that, everything else is cake. Hell, I can even make a kernel now, but even the stock firmware takes several tries to get booted because of this damned thing.