D2 Network which firmware?

[Aled72]

Hello everyone, I have a lacie d2 network 2 with a quadra esata connected. Both 2T.
I would like to put your firmware to have some more features. For example, is it possible to use disks in raid 1?
And how do I know if my d2 network is vs1 or vs2?

Thanks for your help.

[Jocko]

Hi Aled72,

AFAIK, a 2dnw2 has 2 USB (A+B) and an esata port and a d2nw1 has only one USB port (A) and an esata port.

On d2nw2, esata should work with our firmware and yes you may build a raid1 but I have no idea what R/W performance you will get

[Aled72]

Then I have a version two, with two us ports a+b.
The raid speed is not important because is only for secure data.

i will install your firmware because at the moment I can use the second disk (quadra esata) only as public share and is not useful for me.

Many thanks for help.

[akme2]

Hi Aled72,

AFAIK, a 2dnw2 has 2 USB (A+B) and an esata port and a d2nw1 has only one USB port (A) and an esata port.

On d2nw2, esata should work with our firmware and yes you may build a raid1 but I have no idea what R/W performance you will get

Hi Jocko, you say ".. should work with our firmware .."
Can you elaborate or provide link to the appropriate version.. I have d2 network V2K [U-Boot 1.1.4 (Dec 21 2009 - 16:55:45) Marvell version: 3.4.16 LaCie 1.3.9 ]
My d2 is stuck on dashboard screen after factory reset.. I have cloned the partition table to a new disk to tinker on.
I'm finding the info in this site to be difficult to follow.. some stuff requires windows :-). which is a PITA as it doesnt really have all the tools available (like linux)
Are there any pure linux guides??

[fvdw]

Hi, it is possible to prepare a system disk under linux but because almost) nobody is using linux as OS we have not made a guide. Why is using windows a problem for you? The install under windows doesn't require any linux or other tools

[Jocko]

Hi

You may use the manual tuto available in this topic : http://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=336 by assuming your d2nw2 is a nwsp2 (on old version the fw does not support fully d2nw2)
and then follow the topic to upgrade the firmware : https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3059; on step 1, use the package for nwsp2.

And on next manual steps, you need a patch to install the upgrade package