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DUAL HDD NAS: A new NAS after the switch

After the switch to MAC OS X in needed a new NAS. The old system, a Netgear SC101, is using driver which are only available for windows. Beside the missing drivers for Mac OS (and Linux, too) the SC101 is awfull slow, especially in raid 1 (mirror) mode. Further, the features are limited (hmm, yes, it’s only a NAS).

But I wanted a box with embedded Linux, easy expandable or modificable.

The DUAL HDD NAS - Frontsite

That’s what I got from eBay. NIB but not much more information. Based on a SL3316 by Storelink it is build around an ARM9 processor, has an IDE controller (two channels), 10/100 ethernet connector and an USB port (looks like 1.1). You can find more specs here: http://www.storlinksemi.com/products-sl3316.htm

The DUAL HDD NAS - Backsite

After powering up you can use your webbrowser to configure the device. In case you can not (remember MAC OS X) run the enclosed “setup.exe” (which does not much more than to hand you the ip address) try ping 192.168.0.255 (or whatever your broadcast address is). The web interface is not very nice but my goal was to get into the “engine room”.

To bad at this point: telnet (or ssh) aren’t working in the first place.

Finally a picture of the board. There is also a seriell connector but I don’t have a proper cable.

The DUAL HDD NAS - Inside

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5 Responses to “DUAL HDD NAS: A new NAS after the switch”

  1. Obfri Says:
    Juli 3rd, 2007 at 10:20

    Have a look at mrt-communication.com website - they seems to produce this item http://www.mrt-communication.com/35HD-DUAL-NAS.htm.

  2. Faraday Says:
    Oktober 28th, 2007 at 21:01

    Where is the serial connector on the borad?? Which number?
    Is it JP2???

    have a nice day

    Faraday

  3. z Says:
    Januar 24th, 2008 at 21:34

    JP2 is serial port connector. Pinout is 1-Vcc 2-TxD 3-RxD 4-NC- 5-GND (pin 1 is next to GPIO:21). You may have closer look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/23185479@N08/ .
    Note that you’ll need RS-232 ↔ TTL converter, eg. MAX3232 (or equivalent as described at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddASerialPort ), to connect it to PC.
    Serial port terminal settings are 19200 bauds, with 8 bits of data, no parity (19200,8,N,1).

  4. john Says:
    Februar 20th, 2008 at 09:55

    Hi,

    Did you succeed ? I’ve got the same problem.

    John.

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