Support for Seagate personal cloud

[jaker]

Hi
I'm looking for new or used NAS that would support FVDW-SL firmware. Looks like all supported models are rather old and only one mentioned here that is still sold would be Seagate Personal Cloud (Seagate STCR5000200 or Seagate STCR3000200).

What's the status of firmware support for these as I didn't quite understand it from the existing topics?

[fvdw]

Hi seagate personal cloud (SRN21C) is supported. You can install it using fvdw-sl-console 6 with fvdw-sl 18-1
https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3086

Seems STCR5000200 and STCR3000200 = SRN21C, the first one has 5TB disk the second one a 3TB disk

I need to check if we modified the uboot environment variable to enable fvdw-sl boot

[fvdw]

yes uboot environment must be adapted

Below a short instruction how to install firmware and adapt bootloader of seagate personal cloud SRN21C

To install the firmware and adapt the bootloader you will need to install on your PC running windows the fvdw-sl console.
Link to get the console https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3086
Also read this https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2645 to avoid problems in communication between fvdw-sl console and your nas.

1. As first step you should install fvdw-sl firmware using fvdw-sl console

Switch off you seagate personal cloud but leave it connected to your LAN. Use a wired connection between your PC and LAN and disable If you have more then 1 ethernet adapter in your PC, all adapters except the one wired to your LAN

Start fvdw-sl console and select as action install firmware follow the help instructions in the main menu of the fvdw-sl console and select this kernel UIMAGE-466-SGARMADA370-SRN21C-STANDALONE-2 as standalone kernel.
Now start your nas after the window appears waiting for uboot.
Boot will be interupted by the console, and upload and start the standalone kernel and start an telnet client that enables you to connect to your nas. Follow the instructions in the main window to install the firmware.
When installation has succesfully finished you still cannot use the firmware as the bootloader must be adapted.
So in the telnet window give command to poweroff your nas

Code: Select all

poweroff -f

Proceed with step 2 adapting the bootloader


2. As second step adapt bootcmd of the boot loader U-boot

Your seagate personal cloud is switched off but connected to your LAN. Use a wired connection between your PC and LAN and disable if you have more then 1 ethernet adapter in your PC, all adapters except the one wired to your LAN

Start fvdw-sl console and select as action u-boot console of the the fvdw-sl console and start your nas after the window appears waiting for uboot.
The boot will be interupted and you have to click on the uboot console window to activate it and get marvell>> prompt

At the marvel>> prompt set the bootcmd

Code: Select all

setenv bootcmd 'disk 0x2000000 0:6 ; setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda7 ; bootm 0x2000000;'
saveenv

You can now reboot from uboot using command reset

Code: Select all

reset

And if you installed the firmware correctly in step 1 then the firmware should load and fvdw-sl web interface becomes accessible

[jaker]

Excellent. Thank you for your thorough answer.

[Hajo1]

Hi,
I have successfully installed the SRN21C with the fvdw-console on a WD5000LFW. Why can't I install on a WD15EARS? The console cannot find the HDD.

Greetings from the bavaryan Wood

[fvdw]

Is this a used harddisk ? If has had zfs filesystem then this topic could helpfull https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3356

[Hajo1]

It is a used hdd but I am formatted this as a part of a RAID this was successful and now I build a RAID 1.
So I think, I have a running HDD with 1,5 TB and Start partition on it.
Thanks for you help!

[Fuddyduddy]

Hi fvdw

seagate personal cloud (SRN21C) is supported. You can install it using fvdw-sl-console 6 with fvdw-sl 18-1
https://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3086

Seems STCR5000200 and STCR3000200 = SRN21C, the first one has 5TB disk the second one a 3TB disk

Both of these are single-bay.

Does the fvdw firmware also support the two-bay versions?

For example STCS4000201, which I'm considering buying on E-Bay.

According to SmallNetBuilder's review the two-bay versions have the Marvell ARMADA 370 88F6707 C1 SoC @ 1.2 GHz CPU (whereas the 2-bay versions have the 88F6706 SoC), and have RAID 1 as default - which is the main reason for my interest. 2 TB of NAS storage (with built-in redundancy) combined with fvdw firmware seems an attractive proposition - if it's available.

[fvdw]

To be honest, I don't know but looking to linux kernel soutce I think the cpu is compatible with that of single bay personal cloud. However point will be the bootloader, that might be different as such loading the firmware might require different adaptations of the bootloader compared with the one of the single bay

[Jocko]

Hi

According this page, it seems that arm seagate 1bay, 2bays or 4bays use similar way to load the kernel.
https://github.com/linuxmint/ubiquity/b ... /db/all.db

and clunc may be used :
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Seagate/PersonalCloud