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

Hello,

I apologise beforehand if I had not read the other thread fully, but nobody seems to have explained how to get rid of this obsolete MD ioctl reported by dmesg.  I am running latest 1.04 firmware from DLINK ftp site and disks are configured as RAID1.

Jaya

orbitaudio wrote:

It seems that there are different kernel versions used in 1.04, but it would be good if other people on both 1.04 or otherwise could post the output of 'uname -a' to verify this is the case.

Result of my uname -a is 2.6.12.6-arm1 #29 Thu Dec 27 09:59:48 CST 2007 armv5tejl unknown and this was obtained from DLINK ftp site, also same as b84 from German DLINK site.

Jaya

orbitaudio wrote:

hmmm, i don't think its kernel related, or even DNS-323 specific...

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&a … &meta=

it's ioctl, not ictl. ioctls provide an interface to kernel functions and parameters.
what's the version of the mdadm program and when was it released?

fonz wrote:

it's ioctl, not ictl.

I know, but that's not what the message says is it...

i don't have mdadm installed for reference (since i have a debian install)

Last edited by orbitaudio (2008-02-15 15:13:40)

My firmware info says Current Firmware Version: 1.04; Firmware Date: 01/10/2008.  It is same binary as 1.04b82.  This must mean they decided to backtrack? I wonder why.

Jaya

Edit: if you check ftp://ftp.dlink.com/GPL/DNS-323, mdadm version is listed as 2.5.6 -- strange!

Last edited by jayas (2008-02-15 16:02:04)

Gand wrote:

I hate unexplained errors and 2) it's preventing the drives from going to sleep because it's writing the error every 5 minutes.

This does not sound right to me.  I have messages "HD1/2 standby now!" amidst mdadm messages.  So I suspect mdadm messages cannot be preventing your disk from spinning down.

Jaya

Hello,

jayas wrote:

My firmware info says Current Firmware Version: 1.04; Firmware Date: 01/10/2008.  It is same binary as 1.04b82.  This must mean they decided to backtrack? I wonder why.

Jaya

Edit: if you check ftp://ftp.dlink.com/GPL/DNS-323, mdadm version is listed as 2.5.6 -- strange!

Since I posted the URL, it seems the FTP site is no longer accessible to the public.  Has anyone got any idea if D-LINK is working on next version of firmware?  I hope they are as there are still heaps of outstanding problems.

Jaya

Last edited by jayas (2008-04-02 10:05:32)

Hi Andrey

andrey wrote:

D-Link is planning on releasing 1.05 pretty soon. One of the imrovements that I'm aware of is the addition of BitTorrent to scheduled downloads part of UI. Not sure when 1.05 will be released, but they promised that it would take less time when it did for 1.04...

Wonder if any beta's are available for checking out yet.

Jaya

Hi to everyone.

I had the same problem. After applying the lastest firmware available 1.04 in spain DLINK website 1.04b84, this kind of messages started. Obviously my RAID1 unit was degraded? I don't know why but after the reconstruction, I detected that Hard disk 0 never goes to sleep, hard disk 1 does.

I reverted to a previous beta firwmare NAS202B_DLINKEu_DNS323.1.04b21(1.04.0608.2007), that I used to test BT downloading and this kind of messages are dissapeared and both dirvers goes to sleep in the scheduled time.

The version of mdadm is v2.2 - 5 December 2005???? So I don't think that this could be the problem. So if you want to eliminate this messages and drives spin down stay at version 1.03.

I think this problem is related to RAID 1 configurations, anyone can confirm this?

For information only I've found in a german forum that the CH3SNAS from conceptronic has released a new firmware that solves an issue with the spinning down of one drive in RAID 1. Maybe Dlink is working on and the 1.05 firmware can resolve this.

http://www.dl-support.de/forum/viewtopi … 2f020b7a02

and the text mentioned:

Fixed: HDD1 unable to sleep in Raid1 mode

Best regards