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

Sounds to me like it's decided you have a non ext2 filesystem -what does the output of /bin/mount tell you? You haven't upgraded from an old FW that supported ext3 have you?

Unfortunately all the web based functions are compiled in to the webs binary so it's probably nigh on impossible to have a look at the code that causes it also =/

jayas wrote:

I wonder if D-LINK has the capability to attend to what I consider somewhat serious (e.g. losing data on disk, when this is the primary function of the product) defects in its implementation.

Jaya

Question for you - can you describe these serious defects in the implemetation?  Are they defects or are the side effects of well intentioned tinkering?

It had been my experience that if I leave my DNS-323 alone in the corner to do what it was designed to do, then it does it quite well.

I have lost data through having the wrong drive formatted, but only when I go fiddling with it and installing known defective drives to "test" it's response - I can tell you, for example, that with firmware 1.04, drive error/failure detection appears to be greatly improved over the earlier versions - it's caught every defective drive I've put in it.

What you have not mentioned is whether the core functionality failed on a bog standard DNS-323 or a hacked or otherwise modified DNS-323, from your previous posts, I would guess at that latter.

On a bog standard unit

Adding drives - has not caused problems for me - I have done this frequently
Pulling drives (to swap another one in) - has not caused problems for me - I have done this frequently
Pulling drives (to see if the RAID1 would work) - has not caused problems for me - I have done this several times
Replacing drives after RAID1 failure simulations - has not caused problems for me - it asks for a format and then rebuilds
Pulling drives (to see if I could lose data using JBOD) - has caused lost data - as I suspected it would
Installing known defective drives - has caused lost data

I've never backed up or restored the configuration using the web interface so I can't comment on that, and I've never accessed the web interface when the unit was busy, because I've never needed to - nor do I see why I should - in fact, I feel that this can be considered a configure and forget device, since it will email me the status updates I need to know (space and disk failure)

As I have said before - it's been my experience that if the thing is left alone to do what it was designed to do, it works.  Operating it in this mode, I have experienced only two of the numerous issues reported in this forum - an inability to copy files larger than 2GB from Windows Server 2003, and the disks not spinning down due to jobs in the print queue, both of which have been dealt with in the firmware upgrades.

My mods are few, I have my own fun_plug so that I get telnet access so that my automatic shutdown scripts run and some day I might get around to an automatic turn on circuit, I've long been puzzled as to why some of the folks here want to do, what they want to do with this.  If I remember correctly you have what I will term unusual security requirements - could this simply be a situation where you're force fitting the device into a solution that it was not designed for?  Could the problem you experience come simply from what you're trying to do with the device?

I've been in IT support for thirty years and experience has taught me that taking the lost cost approach and using consumer grade equipment in an environment it was not designed for, more often than not, produces unsatisfactory results - installing Windows Server on a desktop system is never as reliable as a purpose designed PowerEdge, ProLinea or xSeries server and the price differential is not that significant (I run my own small business on a IBM xSeries server that cost me USD$465 without monitor or OS)

I hold Dell DCSE, HP/Compaq ASP & IBM PS/2 Server Support certifications, I have been working on RAID systems going on fifteen years now - I've seen the big ones fail and I've seen the little ones fail - and after a year of beating on this thing, I will say it does a pretty good job, especially given it's cost and intended market.

If you're looking for bullet proof functionality, this is not the device for you, and you will not find anything in this price range that offers it, in fact, at double the price I don't think you'll get it, triple the price and you're approaching the low end of the Windows Storage Server solutions, some of which are just as unpredictable RAID wise, quadruple the price and you should be able to find the stability you're looking for - although even here you have no guarantee, I once went to a server equipped with hardware RAID5 and hot swap disks (I'd guestimate >$5000), the RAID management utilities said there was a failed drive, but all of the drive indicators were green - I pulled the drive that the management utility indicated and in the blink of an eye, trashed the array bringing the entire (as in every store) real time point of sale system in a countrywide chain of department stores down - turned out there were actually two failing drives.

So you had a drive fail, and the unit suggested you backup your data and reformat - as long as your data remained available, then the RAID functionality worked for you - you expect to be able to replace a drive and have it rebuild without having to backup, reformat & restore - that is not a requirement of a functional RAID system, it is a desirable feature, but not a requirement, and at least in my experience the DNS-323 does it.

Given the cost of the unit, it provides the functionalities I expect it to, in a manner I consider acceptable.

My drive is still active i see all the files on the drive nothing has happened to the data. Im just not able to access the web interface due to this message. It doesnt matter what account I use. Will attempt to do a hard reset once I get home.