DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

b8b wrote:

I have this same question with regard to Xbox360 and/or Vista Media Center don't they do UPnP? Can it read from the DSN-323 after the new firmware?

For me the UPnP server is still unusable because I can only see a maximum of 30 items from any list (Artists, Albums, ...)

I connect to the UPnP server from Reciva internet radio (via UPnP) and Kiss 1600. I installed fun_plug and Twonky and it works.

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Edit: I'm using the 1.04b84 build (that Zen Seeker noted is binary identical with the dlink.com 1.04 release).

Last edited by sjmac (2008-02-01 13:05:49)

Ok, I just thought I'd answer my own question , no problem it's just that i usually can't wait until someone answers .

Anyway, I upgraded my Swedish DNS-323 to 1.04 using the firmware found on the german D-link support site. The filename had 3 things that I though were important - DNS323, EU and 1.04 . That's all i needed to know, full filename is: NAS202B_DLINKEu_DNS323.1.04b84(1.36.0110.2008).

Upgrade went smoothly, fast and without the dreaded reformatting of the drives. As I just backed up the most important stuff to my desktop because of lack of space, this was a huge relief. Truth be told, I upgraded the old DNS (see post above) to 1.03 from 1.01, and that went well without reformatting too, so I believed it should work this time. Note: I formatted the original RAID1 with EXT2 right away as I read about problems here on this forum.

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One perculiar thing though - when i recieved my new unit on RMA, the drives had all data on them still but the unit didn't recognise the RAID setup. So all of a sudden i sat there with two drives (Volume_1 and Volume_2) with identical data on them! But that was actually OK because i wanted it that way! (Observe that this applied to the new device i recieved on RMA, and not this new firmware upgrade. I just thought i'd share my experience with that).
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Well, i haven't tried all the new stuff in 1.04 apart from "clear print queue" because i have always had the disc spin up issue for as long as i have had this device. I really hope it works. I will know during the evening .

Well, thats it for now, good luck to all you other adventurers!

Last edited by epatnor (2008-02-01 15:36:41)

kdee wrote:

- The new firmware screwed up the users that I had created inside the box along with the permissions. I had to redo all of that.

The firmware update didn't screw up any of my users or groups. Did u update directly from 1.03 or from a previous version?

kdee wrote:

- It was slow for a bit (in terms of accessing it), but it seems to be fine now.

After the update, there was a lot of disk activity and i thought there was some form of defragmentation going on, but i couldn't confirm.

There has so far never been any difference in the versions. I.e US and EU has been exactly the same.

Also as a heads up to the GPL loving junkies out there, ftp://ftp.dlink.com/GPL/DNS-323/

Has been updated with the latest GPL for 1.04 firmware.

Any news on whether this contains the bittorrent client?

I'm guessing it does if it's the same FW from late last year.

And if it does - I'm after a recomendation ...  go with the built in downloader or use MLDonkey?

Cheers,

Cam

I also upgraded the firmware from 1.03 to 1.04 and did not have to reformat. I have two drives set up as RAID 1 and everything seems to work as before the upgrade. The only difference is a new folder with the name ".systemfile" and unknown content. When I try to open that folder I get the message "Access is denied".

- Fixed failure to mount an existing HDD when it is pre-formatted as NTFS/FAT32 and is being inserted into the device.

I hope this fixes the HDD formating bug in 1.03.

I upgraded from 1.03 and file sharing with linux was very flaky.  I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy and sometimes my pc will lose all connectivity to the 323.  Windows XP was fine with it, but Ubunutu did not like it. 

I downgraded back to 1.03 and everything is good again.  Has anyone else seen this?

jeff777 wrote:

The DNS-323 1.04 firmware revision is now online at the following location:

ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns323/Fimrware/

The dlink.com web site hasn't mentioned it yet as of this post, but 1.04 is up for grabs

For what it is worth, this is identical to 1.04b84 that was released on the German site a while ago.

Jaya

The UnDead Kai wrote:

However it didn't flash correctly the first time.
Had to recover it using the serial console.

I'm curious, could you tell us how you recovered the DNS-323 from a bad flash?

Good read about fragmentation.

http://cbbrowne.com/info/defrag.html

Short story ext2fs can indeed be fragmented. However it will not suffer from this in the same way as FAT will do.
Basicly it is most probably not worth the effort to defragment your ext2fs storage.

My initial reaction was - ?? there's a never-spindown-disc-when-in-raid issue ?? - because I don't recall hearing about it and it's not in the wiki.

I popped a spare pair of 250 GB disks in, formatted RAID1, rebooted and waited - sure enough in 5 minutes, the disks had spundown - so - is there a "never-spindown-disc-when-in-raid issue?  What are the details?