Procedure to prepare a new SATA disk for the SPD8020?

[mvlanen]

Dear Admin,
I am trying to replace the current 500GB SATA disk with a 1TB SATA disk.
But what are the actions to be done to prepare such a disk?
Do we have to install NAS4Free x32?

I was wondering where the current Linux is installed / running?
Is that on the Marvell processor with a flashed firmware, since I also see a RTC and a battery on the PCB.

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

BTW: is the NIC ethernet interafce indeed a 1 Gb?

Many thanks in advance.

Marcel van Lanen

[wd9895]

Hi Marcel,

I'm not the admin but you can use the console, Jocko und fvdw programed.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2691
It does the main actions on a virgin drive.
The firmware is located in a specific partition on the disk, not ver large, so you won't notice a bis missing part of capcity.

BUT: You should not upgrade a SPD8020 since it is old and slow. The performance is very limited as the CPU and RAM is rather small.
I would look after a Lacie Network Space 2, a 2big2 Network space or any other Lacie NAS drive or NAS housing.

[Jocko]

Hi mvlanen

Unfortunately, you can not use fvdw-sl console to install the firmware on a new disk with this platform type.

SPD8020 does not have enough memory to run a standalone kernel. So you will need to initialize manually the disk :
- install version 15.1,detail here http://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t= ... 448#p13448
- upgrade to version 16.1
- install the rollup patch required to upgrade to version 17.0
- upgrade to version 17.0