Firmware v15 for Lacie Cloudbox

[ElBalsero]

Hello all,
This is my first post in the forum.
I found you guys like one month ago when looking for an alternative firmware for my Lacie Cloudbox.
I've learnt that v15 adds support for it and I'm very much looking forward to it.
In the release post of v15 it says that the version for Cloudbox will be released soon. Do you have any rough indication about when?
Please do not let my question to put any pressure on anybody. Nothing further from my intention. I'm just curious because I'm really looking fordward, but of course I'll wait as long as it can take.
Congratulations for your excellent work and thanks a lot in advance for your answers.
Daniel

[fvdw]

In fact it is already supported only need to make an image file. I will try to do that this week.
ps there may be still some things like leds and buttons not fully work, i called that fine tuning to be done later.

[fvdw]

The cloudbox firmware is available in the download forum :-D

ps its not perfect yet some things need to be optimized for leds and buttons

[ElBalsero]

Wow! Great!
I'll try to make some time to give it a try hopefully today.
I'll report what I find.
Just to be in the safe side. Of course I understand that there is never a guarantee about, but initially the installation of the firmware would not affect the actual contents of the disk, or would it?
Thanks a lot.
Daniel

[fvdw]

Wow! Great!
I'll try to make some time to give it a try hopefully today.
I'll report what I find.
Just to be in the safe side. Of course I understand that there is never a guarantee about, but initially the installation of the firmware would not affect the actual contents of the disk, or would it?
Thanks a lot.
Daniel

If there is the original lacie firmware on the cloudbox then all data on the disk will be lost with the initial installation of the fvdw-sl firmware.

The reason is that the fvdw-sl firmware uses another partition structure then lacie
All original partitions will be deleted and there is created a new partition table and some partitions will be formatted.
So if there is data on it that you want to keep you will need to make a backup of that data first.

ps the auto installer will ask if you want to make a backup of the Lacie firmware, but it will not backup the shared folders created by lacie firmware.
There is a simple reason for it. Creating a backup of the shared folders via tftp will take a loooong time as it is slow. Better to back that up using windows explorer while the shared folders are still accesible

[ElBalsero]

Good to know.
Time for backup then :-)

[ElBalsero]

Well... backup took longer than expected :-)
I've finally got some time to try the installation and I'm facing some problems.
Basically everything works fine until arriving to the point of the telnet.
- I have configured my router to belong and give addresses from the range 192.168.1.x and I've forced it also to always assign 192.168.1.252 to the cloudbox.
- I choose the option install fvdw-sl firmware and answer the questions.
- TFTP is successfully started and I grant access.
- The U-boot is correctly caught and the TFTP successfully transfer the standalone kernel. I can even see in the command window how the checksum check passes and it drops the message 'starting kernel'.
- The scripts wait for 12 seconds and then the telnet client starts...

But all what I get is a timeout.
I can see that my router claims to have the IP 192.168.1.252 assigned to the device.
I see the blue light of the disk blinking
I try to telnet the IP address manually from other computers without any luck.

And I have run of ideas... anybody has one?

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

[fvdw]

which standalone kernel did you use Daniel ? (name)

[ElBalsero]

The one that is in the tftp directory of the installation package: UIMAGE-26394-NWSP2CL-STANDALONE-164

[fvdw]

my fault, that one doesn't support the cloudbox
You need Linux 3.9.5 standalone kernel.
I will sent it you by pm