Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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Hi everyone. Thanks for all the great information on this forum and the wiki. I'm running a DNS-323, fw 1.06, with ffp 0.5. I have 2 Hitachi 1 TB drives setup as 2 simple volumes (no RAID). I've been running ffp off of a USB stick for 6 months with zero problems, and haven't changed my setup since that initial time.
Recently, however, I returned from a trip and noticed that an amber light was lit on the front of the DNS and the shares were not up. I figured there must have been a power failure or something while I was gone, so I just turned it off and then back on using the front button. It booted up fine and I was once again able to access my hard drives. I soon noticed, however, that the USB stick actually wasn't mounted, so my fun_plug had reverted to the backup ffp that I keep on HD_a2 just in case something like this happens. I tried a couple more reboots, but the same thing kept happening.
ffp.log contains the following (as expected):
* Running /mnt/HD_a2/.bootstrap/setup.sh ...
mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device
* FFP was not found on a USB device. Reverting back to HDD-based FFP
dmesg shows that the usb-storage.ko was loaded fine:
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
But still no USB. I tried removing/reinserting the USB stick while the DNS was running and got this:
hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_platform and address 7
hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_platform and address 8
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_platform and address 9
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 9, error -71
So I'm thinking that it has to be something that died on the USB stick, or the internal USB workings of the DNS, itself. I tried mounting the USB stick on a Ubuntu virtualization on my Mac and it seemed to work fine...no errors, and I could access my files on the USB stick with no problems.
This leaves me thinking that maybe something broke in the DNS. Has anyone heard of this happening before? Is there anything else I should try? Is there any sort of warranty on the DNS that will cover this?
Thanks a ton!
John
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johncolby wrote:
Is there any sort of warranty on the DNS that will cover this?
hmm, I don't think so. Although lots of people (myself included) do the same as you - run ffp of a usb stick - I don't think it is supported. afaik the only supported use of the usb port is to attach a printer and use the dns323 as a print server and recently, to allow monitoring of a ups. If it is a hardware fault on the usb port it shouldn't matter what application you are putting it to though.
But even though you have accessed your files on the usb stick, is that not more likley to be the problem? Why not format another stick, and copy ffp from the hdd and try booting ffp off the replacement?
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