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

MgGuGu · 2009-09-13 16:44:18

Hi,

I just bought a dns-343 a few days back, and as soon as I got home I changed to firmware 1.03 from ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns343/Beta/Firmware/. After that I went on with installing ffp.

Everything was working perfectly well until yesterday, in the middle of a timemachine backup, I got an error saying that the backup destination wasn't available. Although I can still hear the drives spinning and OLED functioning just as usual, I can't ping/connect to smb share or whatsoever. So I restarted it (by pressing the power button, which changed the OLED to "System HALT" but never powered down, so I had to plug it out), and since then it'll just hang out of the blue, transfer rate drops to 2~5MB/s (i'm connected to it via gigabit). And the booting up will take 10~15 minutes!! It won't switch off properly either even though I tried from the WebGUI as well. There's nothing strange in the ffp.log also; telnet and sshd starting and running.

I guess my stupidity kicks in here. I thought ffp is causing the problems, so I thought I'd remove ffp. I edited my fun_plug to single line "rm -rf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp". With that ffp was removed,but all the same problems still exist. So I thought I'd downgrade the firmware back to 1.02, I downloaded 1.02 (not 1.02a) from ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns343/Firmware/ and upgraded thru WebGUI. It was taking too long >30mins, so I went out a while. When I came back 2 hours later, there's no change in the WebGui, but I found the OLED displaying D-Link. Later it read 'System is booting', after that message it'd display "D-Link" and after that it'd read "System REBOOT!". And the circle goes on.

So that's about it. I have no idea what happened to it. Maybe I might have bricked it.

Any help is appreciated!

bkamen · 2009-09-14 20:32:36

Yikes.

Can you describe your setup for us a little.

Is a reformat out of the question?

Can you try popping a blank drive in?

-Ben

p.s. I'll admit, I played with my DNS-343 for a few days before copying my data to it.
And then, I still waited a week or more before considering what to do with my old data.. and then waiting like a month before taking down my other data sources. (I do intend at some point to install disk backups to the DNS-343 for redundancy)

And as an FYI, I get transfer rates of about 320Mb/s with my DNS-343 on a Gb network with jumbo frames set to 9K (the max) and my switched (Dlink DGS-1216T's) set to on ( only has off and on which = 10K frame size)

MgGuGu · 2009-09-15 19:43:25

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I currently have 4x1TB Western Digital CaviarGreens.
A reformat? I guess I'd try that but no idea how to reformat the whole thing when it wont' even boot. =.=

Thankss!!

bkamen · 2009-09-16 03:59:07

What about taking out the 4 and popping in a blank drive? You may need to wipe out the drives externally and then put them back in.

But the point is to test whether something on the drive mucked up its life...

-Ben

Smallstack · 2009-09-16 11:15:18

You should be able to boot it with no drives in it. If it doesn't boot then, it's probably a hardware problem unless you did something to the kernel.

MgGuGu · 2009-09-16 20:27:02

Tried booting the unit without the 4 HDDs. Still no difference. Cycling the 'booting' message, 'dlink' logo and 'restart!' message. Still wont' boot.

Tried with one blank HDD as well, same result.

johnkeye · 2009-09-19 15:24:58

Have you tried resetting the device using the reset button on the back? I think you have to hold it in for 5-10 seconds, but I don't have a manual handy.

You'll need a pen or an unbent paper clip to reach the button.

MgGuGu · 2009-09-19 17:20:10

Yap, tried the reset button as well; no help. =X

royc93 · 2009-10-09 06:40:35

try to reset default manually

steps:

1. telnet your_machine
2. mount -a ---> mount mtd1 block
3. rm /sys/mtd1/* --> del all user setting file in mtd1
4. cp /sys/crfs/default/* /sys/mtd1 --> copy default to mtdblock
5. umount /sys/mtd1 --> umount mtdblock
6. reboot

caust1c · 2010-04-09 11:04:20

bkamen wrote:
And as an FYI, I get transfer rates of about 320Mb/s with my DNS-343 on a Gb network with jumbo frames set to 9K (the max) and my switched (Dlink DGS-1216T's) set to on ( only has off and on which = 10K frame size)

What setup are you using for your drives? I am using 4x2tb 7200rpm drives in RAID 5, I can only get about 40Mbs writing and 200Mbs reading.

I am forced to use standard MTU as my media player WDTV-Live doesn't seem support jumbo frames and won't allow me to stream when they are enabled. (streaming = reading a file off an NFS mount on my NAS)

Last edited by caust1c (2010-04-09 11:06:58)

bkamen · 2010-04-14 20:26:38

caust1c wrote:
bkamen wrote:
And as an FYI, I get transfer rates of about 320Mb/s with my DNS-343 on a Gb network with jumbo frames set to 9K (the max) and my switched (Dlink DGS-1216T's) set to on ( only has off and on which = 10K frame size)
What setup are you using for your drives? I am using 4x2tb 7200rpm drives in RAID 5, I can only get about 40Mbs writing and 200Mbs reading.

I am forced to use standard MTU as my media player WDTV-Live doesn't seem support jumbo frames and won't allow me to stream when they are enabled. (streaming = reading a file off an NFS mount on my NAS)

I have (3) Seagate ST3250820AS and (1) ST3250310AS

They are plugged into a DLINK DGS-1216T Gb switch with Jumbo Frames enabled.

The host that got the most was a Dell GX270 (P4 3.2GHz & 1GB) w/Intel PRO/1000MT integrated NIC w/Jumbo Frames also enabled.

You would be interested t know my "workstation" that has a Quad AMD Phenom (9950BE) w/RealTek PCIe GBE integrated NIC w/Jumbo frames gets LOUSY Gb performance. Typically around 100Mb/s. shame shame.

So your NIC has a lot to do with things as well as maybe the PC --- not just the network.

-Ben

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#1 2009-09-13 16:44:18

I guess my dns-343 is bricked. =.='

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#6 2009-09-16 20:27:02

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#7 2009-09-19 15:24:58

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#8 2009-09-19 17:20:10

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#9 2009-10-09 06:40:35

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#10 2010-04-09 11:04:20

Re: I guess my dns-343 is bricked. =.='

bkamen wrote:

#11 2010-04-14 20:26:38

Re: I guess my dns-343 is bricked. =.='

caust1c wrote:

bkamen wrote:

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