fvdw-sl doesnt work for me :(

[FoCMB]

hi,

i tried to install your firmware on my lacie network space 2, but it doesn't work. i followed the instruction in the howto. if i connect the network space to my router, nothing happend. the green led, the amber led on the backside and the front blue led are on, but not blinking. is it possible, that your firmware is not working on the seagate hard drive?

please excuse my poor english :oops:

[Jocko]

Hi focmb,

Unless the disk has a fault, there is no restriction with hard drives smaller than or equal to 2 TB

First question:
What procedure do you follow:
-Manual (following the howtodo) - In principle, you used this one
-automatic (Langerak script)

Second question:
- (Basic) have you used the correct pack for NWSP vs 2
- Have you checked the new partition table?

The first test to do: connect the disk on a Linux machine, open a terminal and execute the command: fdisk-l.

Then verifies that the disk sdb (b or other letter) has exactly the same partition table as shown in the howtodo.

Otherwise you can do again the procedure with the Langerak script (See http://www.plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=60&start=70#p827)

[FoCMB]

i will try again. here my outout from
# fdisk /dev/sdb with option p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 121601 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x26f64b88

now i create a new patition table. will post the output in a few minutes

[FoCMB]

the new partition table:

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 64 513056 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 65 128 514080 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 129 192 514080 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 193 121601 975217792+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 193 292 802226 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 293 293 7008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 294 357 513056 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 358 121601 973891406 83 Linux

i see, that there are some differences between my table and the table in the howto, but i dont know why.

[Jocko]

It is right, the next steps should work normally without problems

Maybe you forgot the "w" command to save the new table or your disk was mounted ;)

[FoCMB]

i dont forget the w command or unmounting the disk ;)

i tested the installer script from your link. but there is a error message "error formatting /dev/sdb5."

but now i will try the rest of the turorial again. will post the result later

[FoCMB]

is it right, that i should write the same firmware on 3 partitons?

dd if=path-to-firmware/firmware.img of=/dev/sdb1
dd if=path-to-firmware/firmware.img of=/dev/sdb2
dd if=path-to-firmware/firmware.img of=/dev/sdb7

[Jocko]

Yes, that's it.

Exactly all the steps in the Howtodo and only these

[FoCMB]

i did exactly the steps from howto:

root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw# dd if=/xxx/fvdw/fvdw-sl-9-0-nwsp2-19aug2011.img of=/dev/sdb1
313344+0 Datensätze ein
313344+0 Datensätze aus
160432128 Bytes (160 MB) kopiert, 26,5608 s, 6,0 MB/s
root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw# dd if=/xxx/fvdw/fvdw-sl-9-0-nwsp2-19aug2011.img of=/dev/sdb2
313344+0 Datensätze ein
313344+0 Datensätze aus
160432128 Bytes (160 MB) kopiert, 26,6411 s, 6,0 MB/s
root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw# dd if=/xxx/fvdw/fvdw-sl-9-0-nwsp2-19aug2011.img of=/dev/sdb7
313344+0 Datensätze ein
313344+0 Datensätze aus
160432128 Bytes (160 MB) kopiert, 26,0606 s, 6,2 MB/s
root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw# mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt-sdb5
root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw# cd /mnt-sdb5
root@Laptop:/xxx/fvdw/sda5-lacie-nwsp.tar.gz /mnt-sdb5
root@Laptop:/mnt-sdb5# tar -xzvf sda5-lacie-nwsp.tar.gz
etc/
etc/nas_conf_db.xml
etc/nas_ext_hdd_db.xml
etc/ntp.conf
lost+found/
tmp/
usr/
usr/private/
usr/private/secrets.tdb
var/
var/etc/
root@Laptop:/mnt-sdb5# chmod 777 /mnt-sdb5/etc/nas_conf_db.xml
root@Laptop:/mnt-sdb5# cd ..
root@Laptop:/# umount /mnt-sdb5
root@Laptop:/# mount /dev/sdb8 /mnt-sdb8
root@Laptop:/# mkdir /mnt-sdb8/public
root@Laptop:/# chmod 777 /mnt-sdb8/public/
root@Laptop:/# umount /mnt-sdb8

and then i connected it to my network via lan. i cant see the network space 2 on my router and the amber led is not blinken (i think, it should blink if the drive is connected).
get the drive the ip via dhcp?

[Jocko]

I don't see the following steps :

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(j) format partition sbd8 and sdb5 in ext3 format
 The other ones don't need formatting as we will write images to those.
 Commands to format the partitions sdb5 and sdb8:
mke2fs -j -m 1 /dev/sdb5
mke2fs -j -m 1 /dev/sdb8
(k) Write uImage-26xyz-n-nwsp2 (compressed linux kernel image) to sdb6
Now you need the file uImage-26xyz-n-nwsp2, (replace xyz and n by the actual numbers of the file in the installation package), write this to partition sdb6:
dd if=/path-to-uImage/uImage-26xyz-n-nwsp2 of=/dev/sdb6

Or You forgot to copy them in your previous post ?