Ah, apparently I was wrong. My bad. ... -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/...
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Kevin Smathers
kevin_at_ank
Jan 20, 2010 8:05 am
I put custom boot stuff in /etc/rc.local, but other people prefer to create custom init.d scripts. The trade off is that rc.local is only run on startup...
1020
alden.kent@...
alden.kent...
Jan 24, 2010 11:30 pm
Looking to add capacity to my mv5140...which came with a pair of 500mb drives. Understand that the maximum individual drive size is 1 TB...but a workaround...
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m3d1aus3r
Jan 26, 2010 6:24 pm
I am not aware that there is a trick to make the HP stuff work with drives larger than 1Tb, but I am sure it is ultimately possible. The true problem is that...
1022
alden.kent@...
alden.kent...
Jan 28, 2010 12:49 am
... I was able to confirm that replacing fdisk actually solves the problem for larger drives. Still would have issues with a mirror larger than 1TB, but the...
1023
m3d1aus3r
Jan 28, 2010 7:00 pm
Probably a question for Martin, but is there any way for us running Debian Lenny on the MV2 to take advantage of the Orion performance patches from Marvell? I...
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@...
Jan 28, 2010 7:13 pm
... flash-kernel will do the right thing on the mv2 and create an uImage. ... It'll be in squeeze but the squeeze kernel installs fine on lenny. -- Martin...
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WildCelt
wildcelt43
Jan 28, 2010 8:50 pm
Greetings, I tried in vain to get my new WD 1TB drives to work with the stock firmware, so I am interested in finding an alternative. Is Debain the only custom...
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m3d1aus3r
Jan 28, 2010 9:15 pm
It seems like your 1TB drive is extra, so you can give Debian a try by removing the existing drive with the HP stuff, and keep it in a safe place. Use the 1TB...
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m3d1aus3r
Jan 28, 2010 9:28 pm
Well, not bad! Sort of depends on when you run the test, but this seems typical: Lenny Kernel 2.6.26-2-orion5x (baseline): # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: ...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Jan 29, 2010 5:40 am
I haven't really been in the MV/NAS hacking loop for a while. What's the deal with the performance patches? Chris ====== Chris Seto Admin of...
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@...
Jan 29, 2010 8:32 am
... We're talking about this change: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=39ec58f3fea47c242724109cc1da999f74810bbc ...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Jan 29, 2010 4:07 pm
I think I read about this patch on your journal. I googled it and one of the results was this: ...
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@...
Jan 29, 2010 4:52 pm
... Nope, it will work. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Jan 29, 2010 4:55 pm
Ok, Well, I might as well try it... Thanks Martin! Chris ====== Chris Seto Admin of hackingthemediavault Watch me rant about things on Twitter! ...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Jan 29, 2010 11:33 pm
I installed the patch. At first it was a little bit slower, but I realized that I hadn't updated my system is a horribly long time. After updating everything,...
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@...
Jan 31, 2010 8:53 am
... There's a newer one in Debian testing/unstable but it shouldn't make much difference. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/...
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Christopher Herman
conspiracyth...
Feb 5, 2010 7:23 pm
CH: Did you have a particular Linux in mind? Red Hat or Ubuntu? Something general about Linux or something specifically Debian? I may have the e-books, and...
1036
WildCelt
wildcelt43
Feb 6, 2010 12:02 am
Thanks for the reply. I ran across that site after I posted. It looks relatively straightforward. My real question is what do I do with it once I've got...
1037
Jim
jimbotrcy
Feb 7, 2010 8:29 pm
I recently add UPS protection to my MV1. I understand that it is not possible to shut the MV1 down (because of the toggle power switch), but I'd like to do...
1038
chris.magani
Feb 7, 2010 10:42 pm
Hi all, I'm new to the group so please excuse me if this has already been answered (I can't find any references, though). I've been given an HP MV2020 by a...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Feb 7, 2010 11:10 pm
Hi Chris, The MV1 is based off a Mipsel processor, which makes it incompatible with WHS, which requires an X86 processor. There are currently no alternative...
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chris.magani
Feb 8, 2010 12:05 am
Hi Chris, Thanks for the quick reply - even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear. ... Guess I'll just have to sharpen up my *nix skills. :-)) Cheers, (the...
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mkeeshin
Feb 8, 2010 4:52 am
i was trying to edit the rcS file in the etc/init.d folder. i ran into an issue where i couldn't save any changes (i think because of permission issues), so i...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Feb 8, 2010 5:36 am
I have uploaded the file here... http://www.chrisseto.com/host/rcS Make SURE this file is set to rwxr-xr-x permissions before you reboot!! If you do not, I can...
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Gerard
gerardr1
Feb 8, 2010 11:56 am
Hi! I don't know what tools are available to you, but here's a 'wget' command line (available under most Linuxes) that sets the power save time to 60 seconds...
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Lee Devlin
lee810
Feb 8, 2010 3:03 pm
I am not aware of any way to tell the hard drives to spin down immediately on the MV. Also, just having an active a telnet session will wake up the MV so it's...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Feb 8, 2010 6:49 pm
Matt, I had the change the link to the file. The new one is http://www.chrisseto.com/host/Gf88Z Chris ====== Chris Seto Admin of hackingthemediavault Check out...
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mkeeshin
Feb 9, 2010 1:12 am
Chris Thanks so much for the help--and on Super Bowl Sunday no less. At first I thought I would have an issue just copying and pasting the text because of the...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Feb 9, 2010 1:21 am
Hi Matt, You can do what I did: Symlink the root directory to a folder in a share on the MV. That way you can use a "regular" text editor liek notepad++ to...
