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

Downloaded here without a problem. I can't upgrade now, unfortunately No backup media at the moment... But there is no note on "beta" version, so I suppose this is official "full" build. Unless this little "b" in 1.02b means beta

If you have any experience with this build/version, let us know!

Not surprised, but no sign of this version on any of European D-Link sites... I don't care anymore.

Two items to note with the new firmware. 

1. They did not change the reported firmware to 1.02b, it will still show as 1.02 so you need to check that the date is 1/10/2007.
2. On first run, raid 1 appears to be functioning as it should. 

I followed my same testing as before when it failed.  I have not re-formatted my drives.  I upgraded the firmware, pulled a drive, shut the unit down.  cleaned the drive on another computer and re-inserted.  Powered up the DNS, formatted the replacement drive, rebooted and it is now synching data.  ETA 63 minutes for my 320gb HDs.  Will report back if all seems well.

So far I'm excited!!

Not sure on that one.  I can try it.  I don't think it would know what to do.  It would still see the partitions it sets up and probably assume that the array is clean.  I noticed after I pulled the one drive the status still showed a complete array.  All I did to clean the HD was to remove the partitions. 

The resync is still going on.  Looks like the 63 min estimate was a little off, more like 90 minutes.  But that is still very acceptable if my data is safe.  I am still able to access the files so I at least know it's not erasing everything.    I'll mess around with some differnet iterations of failures/restoring before I say I'm satisfied.

Next will be to fun_plug this thing and start checking the logs via telnet.  Interesting that this firmware says remove ext3, I thought they did that last time.  Maybe they cleaned up the errors in the dmesg that we were seeing.

I upgraded and did not reformat.  I noted all my settings were still intact after the re-flash.  I decided to nuke the settings to the default since every time I was going to the iTunes web page it crashed the web interface.  My Raid 1 array is still there.

I noted that after I did a reset there was a lot of disk activity.  I don't have fun_plug enabled, but I think it ran e2fsck by it self! That would be nice!

I received my box 2 days ago and got 2 new disks (WD Caviar RE 320 gigs) yesterday. Started out with standard firmware (1.01) and did my settings. After map drive problems i found this forum (great stuff by the way).

Did upgrade it to newest firmware 1.02b, (required reformatting - so I did) and my settings were kept.

Had to upgrade browser to IE7 in order to make the formatting progress start.

I'm a Danish citizen so my warranty is probably non existent anymore. Couldn't care less in this issue. Wake up D-Link EU.

kimhav wrote:

LifeTap wrote:

The resync is still going on.  Looks like the 63 min estimate was a little off, more like 90 minutes.  But that is still very acceptable if my data is safe.  I am still able to access the files so I at least know it's not erasing everything.    I'll mess around with some differnet iterations of failures/restoring before I say I'm satisfied.

How did the resync workout; did it go through without any issues and did everything look okey?

Everything worked out great it seems.  All my data is there so far as I can tell.  No issues accessing what I have.

I have two DNS-323.  One was using ext2 RAID 1 and the other was using ext3 RAID 1.  The one with ext3 during the upgrade to 1.02b, I was asked to format the drives, and it changed to ext2 after formatting.  The one with ext2 during the upgrade to 1.02b, it didn't ask me to format!.  All of my settings remained the same.  I think D-Link wants to remove the filesystem ext3.  The 1.02b is able to detect what filesystem you are using.  Whoever uses ext3 will be asked to reformat the drives in order to change to ext2.  Obviousely this is my guess.

RTShaw wrote:

...BTW, Easy search what does it search 4. and mapping the drives i have 2 do after every reboot so i finally just stopped mapping em. Anyne have any luck in mapping the drives and after reboot they are still mapped?

No problem mapping drives, but not using EasySearch, but manual windows mapping (Map network drive) with "reconnect on next logon" (sorry, I have Czech XP, don't know the english phrase exactly). The only odd thing is that sometimes (rarely) the unit doesn't announce it's name correctly, so I map it directly by IP address (fixed IP reserved for DNS323 in my DHCP server).