Bricked my goflex home on ubit v0.6 (solved by peaslaker)

[peaslaker]

One more important thing. Don't upgrade your kernel using pacman. If you do, you will lose GoFlex Home support. You can temporarily remove the kernel from pacman's list of installed packages:

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pacman -R kernel26-withlinux
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The new version is coming soon with GoFlex Home support, but for now you're just between versions. It is all part of bringing GoFlex Home support into the main Arch Linux ARM install project.

[Rober33]

HI peaslaker I have been reading through posts on these forums and you seem to be the person to ask about running Arch Linux ARM install linux on the GoFlex Home.

I am more than a little bit confused about a lot of this and could really use some help.

After installing Arch Linux ARM install linux what applications can you install? Can ANY Linux applications be installed?

Can you point me to a tutorial that will get this working with SATA, or is it safe to follow this tutorial: http://Arch Linux ARM.com/index.php5/Official ... oFlex_Home?

I appreciate any advice you can give me. I'm a bit of a Linux NooB

Edit: Sorry if this is hijacking the original thread but the reason I replied here is the tutorial I linked to is for v0.6 and you seem to suggest that this is not safe at least at the time that this thread was created.

[Rober33]

Thanks for your reply, I found the links by having a good read through the Wiki so I have a bit of a better understanding now.

Can you tell me, on the link that I posted above the instructions are for ubit v0.6 I believe. Is it 'safe' to follow this tutorial to get Arch Linux ARM working on my GoFlex Home?

[peaslaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rober33', 'T')hanks for your reply, I found the links by having a good read through the Wiki so I have a bit of a better understanding now.

Can you tell me, on the link that I posted above the instructions are for ubit v0.6 I believe. Is it 'safe' to follow this tutorial to get Arch Linux ARM working on my GoFlex Home?

[peaslaker]

Further point.

Installing to the main hard disk also means the hard disk will be accessed reasonably frequently for logging and other system purposes. This prevents any power saving mode spinning down the main hard disk. In my experience the 3.5" GoFlex drive enclosure is not good at dissipating heat and I had some suspect thermal related lock-ups (OS on USB) running like this.

This is why I ended up installing to NAND for my own setup. Like this I can set a 5 minute spindown on the main hard disk and it stays cool under most circumstances.

I also had issues with USB booting because the power draw from the main disk on startup seemed to be preventing the USB stick from being reliable under all circumstances. Either that or I mangled the USB socket at some stage.

The GoFlex Home is my least favourite device but has been 100% reliable in my current setup.

[Rober33]

Thanks for your reply I really appreciate your help and advice with this.

I have come to the conclusion that if I have to use the terrible default software on the GoFlex Home I would rather just bin the thing, or buy the usb3 adapter and use it as an external hard drive.

I hate buying hardware that could be really useful and finding that it is almost completely useless because of the limitations that are forced on you by the manufacturer. Also some of Seagate's tactics here really should be illegal! Having to pay a fee to unlock advanced features for example, a complete rip off!!

Having decided that I don't care if I blow this device into pieces has made the decision to install Arch Linux ARM really easy.

Looking at the options and limitations that you presented I am really keen to try option 6

I am a Computer Science graduate so not a complete imbecile but I really am ashamed of my lack of knowledge and experience when working with Linux.

Do you have a link to a guide for installing the OS to NAND all of the guides seem to redirect me to the installation method selection page?

Any help you can give will be appreciated but I don't mind doing the legwork myself if you can point me in the right direction.

[peaslaker]

I've seen your reply. Going straight to a NAND install is probably the wrong move. The NAND install is static and non-writeable. It can be run with an writeable overlay. This arrangement gets very confusing very quickly. It is much better to run a full Arch Linux ARM install on some form of external media and then transfer that to NAND when you have everything working.

Take a pick from options 1 and 5 for starting out and you'll be better off in the long run.

[Rober33]

Thanks for all of your help and advice peaslaker. I have managed to get Arch Linux ARM running from the goflex hard drive without too much trouble.

When I have a complete setup I am happy with I will look into writing it to nand.

I really appreciate your advice, just following the guide worked without any major issues but I like to find out as much as I can before I dive into doing something like this and your advice really helped.

[maikeul06]

Hi, have the same problem, hope you follow this subject.

First, Sorry for my vocabulary, i'm french..

so: when i boot my goflex home,with my 3 To disk plugged, i have this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2010.09 (Feb 16 2011 - 18:44:23)
UBIT v0.6 by Jeff Doozan and Peter Carmichael
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:fast", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:fast'!
UBIFS not mounted, use ubifs mount to mount volume first!
** Block device usb 0 not supported
** Block device usb 0 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 1 not supported
** Block device usb 1 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 2 not supported
** Block device usb 2 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 3 not supported
** Block device usb 3 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **

Reset IDE: Bus 0: OK Bus 1: not available
Device 0: Model: ST33000651AS Firm: CC43 Ser#: 9XK03A6A
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 764436.4 MB = 746.5 GB (1565565872 x 512)
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
** File not found /boot/uImage
Loading file "/uInitrd" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
** File not found /uInitrd
reading /boot/uImage

** Unable to read "/boot/uImage" from ide 0:1 **
reading /uInitrd

** Unable to read "/uInitrd" from ide 0:1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
No Powersaving mode 7F
Error (no IRQ) dev 1 blk 0: status 0x7f
** Can't read from device 1 **

** Unable to use ide 1:1 for fatload **
No Powersaving mode 7F
Error (no IRQ) dev 1 blk 0: status 0x7f
** Can't read from device 1 **

** Unable to use ide 1:1 for fatload **
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:ramdisk", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:ramdisk'!
UBIFS not mounted, use ubifs mount to mount volume first!
')

and with UBIT rescue disk, i have this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
U-Boot 2010.09 (Feb 16 2011 - 18:44:23)
UBIT v0.6 by Jeff Doozan and Peter Carmichael
(Re)start USB...
USB: Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus for devices...

2 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... Device NOT ready
Request Sense returned 00 00 00
1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:fast", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:fast'!
UBIFS not mounted, use ubifs mount to mount volume first!
** Bad partition 1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
Device NOT ready
Request Sense returned 00 00 00
** Can't read from device 0 **

** Unable to use usb 0:1 for fatload **
Device NOT ready
Request Sense returned 00 00 00
** Can't read from device 0 **

** Unable to use usb 0:1 for fatload **
** Block device usb 1 not supported
** Block device usb 1 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 2 not supported
** Block device usb 2 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **
** Block device usb 3 not supported
** Block device usb 3 not supported

** Invalid boot device **

** Invalid boot device **

Reset IDE: Bus 0: OK Bus 1: not available
Device 0: Model: ST33000651AS Firm: CC43 Ser#: 9XK03A6A
Type: Hard Disk
Supports 48-bit addressing
Capacity: 764436.4 MB = 746.5 GB (1565565872 x 512)
Loading file "/boot/uImage" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
** File not found /boot/uImage
Loading file "/uInitrd" from ide device 0:1 (hda1)
** File not found /uInitrd
reading /boot/uImage

** Unable to read "/boot/uImage" from ide 0:1 **
reading /uInitrd

** Unable to read "/uInitrd" from ide 0:1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
No Powersaving mode 7F
Error (no IRQ) dev 1 blk 0: status 0x7f
** Can't read from device 1 **

** Unable to use ide 1:1 for fatload **
No Powersaving mode 7F
Error (no IRQ) dev 1 blk 0: status 0x7f
** Can't read from device 1 **

** Unable to use ide 1:1 for fatload **
UBIFS error (pid 0): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi:ramdisk", error -19
Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:ramdisk'!
UBIFS not mounted, use ubifs mount to mount volume first!

')

Any idea ?
thanks for your help, i really don't know what to do!
PS: my goal is to have an rsync / smb server into nand .
Michel.

[martymoose]

hi i have a bricked unit
i can net console in to it
but i carnt get the ubit to load of any usb
any tips