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

one would think so if it has the ability to stop spinning the disks when not active

Thanks for the reply.  If anyone can figure out a way to WOL, do share with the group.

As far as I can tell the 88F1111 chipset supports some form of WOL - there is however, some doubt as to whether the current driver supports it

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1602-Auto … up%3F.html

bluesmoke wrote:

It appears that the 88E1111 PHY circuit has no power on its supply rails when the device is off. Thus I think that WOL is impossible, unless I missed some small converter.

I wondered about that - it shouldn't be too hard to fix for someone so inclined.  There is some level of power supplied to the logic even with unit switched off, because the front panel button is a "soft' switch, something has to detect the contact closure.

What I will say at this point is holding the button down and applying power does nothing, but applying power, waiting 1 second and holding the button for 1 second will power it up and that's the basis of a small timing circuit I'm developing to get "auto power on"

fordem wrote:

I wondered about that - it shouldn't be too hard to fix for someone so inclined.  There is some level of power supplied to the logic even with unit switched off, because the front panel button is a "soft' switch, something has to detect the contact closure.

What I will say at this point is holding the button down and applying power does nothing, but applying power, waiting 1 second and holding the button for 1 second will power it up and that's the basis of a small timing circuit I'm developing to get "auto power on"

Interesting,  an auto powerup circuit is also on my todo list, although if i had WOL i wouldn't have to worry about an auto powerup circuit.  Looks like i'm subscribing to this thread

Edit:
I'm still curious to find out which chip the main power button is actually connected to.  If the button can power up the unit then obviously the chip the button is connected to must have power when the device is off.  I'm yet to pull out a multimeter, but i speculate that the processor has power and sits in some kind of low power state with or without the processor clock running? or does the button just enable power to be supplied to the processor via some other chip, maybe that latch?

Also would it be possible for someone to post or PM me the link to this 'other documentation' that was discussed in one of the WOL threads.

Last edited by orbitaudio (2008-02-07 23:31:37)

The power button is connected to the circuit surrounding and including the SO14 (74AHC74D=dual D-flipflops) that is adjacent to the HDD0-connector. This circuit is powered at all times (if power brick is connected).

Last edited by bluesmoke (2008-02-08 09:13:10)

Thanks fordem - that's the document I was referring to in the other thread, notice it's v8.41.2.3 where as the documentation with the dns-323 kernel driver is for version v6.23.

Well - just in case anyone is interested ...

The first draft of the auto power on circuit was still born - it was designed on the expectation that the power button would be a momentary contact, normally open switch and would pull a logic signal low - it doesn't.  it is a momentary contact normally open switch, but one side is connected to the +12v rail so closing the contacts pulls something high.

Somewhat unusual, especially in today's world of low voltage, low power processors - but hopefully nothing more than a minor set back - in theory, simply inverting the circuit and changing the transistor polarity should solve it.

i'm wondering how far you got with hacking this fordem (and others)?

sorry for the stupid question but what happens when you shutdown dns-323 manually? does it turn back on instantly?

i'm asking because the only time my dns-323 shuts down is when windows computer connected to ups sends a shutdown command. but after the power outtage i would still like access the nas. problem is i don't think there are any solutions to this besides wol (auto start wont help because there is still some battery life left in the ups - it'll re-start, drain the battery and shutdown incorrectly).

dang d-link why no wol