NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hello,
I am using NasLite-SMBG, and .../Info/Disk-4.htm tells me the following:
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Disk-4 Initialization Messages

Checking for Disk-4
Disk-4 is not available
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Disk-4 Hardware
WDC WD400BB-00FJA0, ATA DISK drive
attached ide-disk driver.
host protected area => 1
78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63
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BUT,when I want to initialize the disk via Option4, then disk 4, I get the following error message:

Failed to configure Disk-4 (or 3). Can only be configured if it is installed and is a fixed disk...

(BIOS has both IDE's enabled)

Any ideas what's wrong here?

Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks, Thorsten Indra

have you rechecked the power and ata-cables?
do you hear the drive spin? (i once had a faulty power cable, so the drive wouldn't spin up good, or stop spinning randomly)

have you checked the jumpers?

(hope those simple steps fix it for you)

Yes, I have checked all hardware connection multiple times, and can feel the drives spinning

Any other ideas out there? I am stuck.

Thanks in advance,
Thorsten

Addendum:
After some more back an forth, I have disks 1+2 running, but disk 3 (the master on IDE-1) still keeps acting up. The info now shows the following:
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Disk-3 Initialization Messages
Checking for Disk-3
Disk-3 is not available
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Disk-3 Hardware
WDC WD400BB-00FJA0, ATA DISK drive
attached ide-disk driver.
host protected area => 1
78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63

NOTE: Disk-3 is installed and can be configured for use with NASLite-SMBG.
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But again, if I choose option 4 in the admin menu and want to configure the disk, I get the failed to configure message again.

Any more ideas anybody?
Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,

In the Info share, there will be a button called "SYS Log". With NASLite on, can you capture the contents and post them so we can take a look at it. That will be a good start i think

Hi Tony,
here a description of the hardware first, the contents of Syslog follows below.
IDE-0 Master: 40GB WD Drive
IDE-0 Slave: CD ROM (but this does not make a difference, whether it is connected or not, the problems persist. Would like to keep for booting from Knoppix Linux CD)
IDE-1 Master: 250GB WD Drive
IDE-1 Slave: 80GB IBM Drive

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Server System Log

Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS daemon.info init: Starting pid 260, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS syslog.notice klogd: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Linux version 2.4.26.NASLite (root@(none)) (gcc version 3.3.2) #11 Tue Jun 15 14:34:30 MDT 2004
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ffd800 (usable)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ffd800 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.notice klogd: 127MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: On node 0 totalpages: 32765
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(1): 28669 pages.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(2): 0 pages.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: DMI not present.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Kernel command line:
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Initializing CPU#0
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Detected 498.476 MHz processor.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Memory: 127404k/131060k available (1083k kernel code, 3268k reserved, 230k data, 336k init, 0k highmem)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.debug klogd: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.debug klogd: CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Checking for popad bug... OK.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd994, last bus=1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Initializing RT netlink socket
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: Starting kswapd
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.30.1-k1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PIIX4: chipset revision 1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x7cf0-0x7cf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x7cf8-0x7cff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: WDC WD400BB-00FJA0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdb: LTN382, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: WDC WD2500JB-53EVA0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: host protected area => 1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: host protected area => 1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: hdc: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: host protected area => 1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: hdd: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=159560/16/63
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Partition check:
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.notice klogd: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 803
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.warn klogd: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 336k freed
Sep 23 02:04:06 NAS user.info klogd: e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
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Would be great, if this could be solved somehow and this gets up and running. Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards, Thorsten

Unless i'm missing something, your syslog appears to be normal, so at this point i'm puzzled as to why the 250G drive is failing to initialize.

Is this a new drive? Can you format it using a different OS on the same machine?

When you format the drive, there will be a bunch of things scrolling by on the screen. It appears that partitioning does occur (syslog indicates that there is a partition on the drive), but the formatting is most likely failing. Can you make out an error message before the screen clears?

Another thing that you may want to try is the SMB version. It uses a generic IDE driver. Try that and see if it will format the drive.

The largest drive I have on hand is 160G, so at this point I have no way to verify proper handling of 250G. If someone else is spinning a 250G WD drive of the same specs in their NASLite, please post and let us know.

Hi Tony,
it is a new drive (WD, 40GB). And I have reformatted it again to under Knoppix Linux (an all day undertaking for a Linux novice like me...) That did not make a difference to the issue.

Disks hooked up to the primary IDE work fine (no matter what the disk 40-80-250 GB, and no matter if one or two). But disks on the secondary IDE will not mount successfully. The BIOS nevertheless will display all disks correctly (as does the NASLite admin tool)

When I use option 4 and try to initialize the disks on 3 or 4, one message flashes up:
"umount: /export/Disk-3 : no such file or directory",
followed by the "Failed to configure Disk-3, only fixed disk etc" message.

I am stuck, but would really like to use NASLite. Any more ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Thorsten

There could be 2 possible issues here. One could be a bad NASLite image. I would re-download the image, re-master it on to a new floppy, and check again.

The other problem could be a flaky IDE port or cable. Switch the cables, and see if this works. Then try NASLite on another box w/ the same drives.

This should at least eliminate those possibilities.

Hope this helps,

Tim

Tim,
thanks for your input. I would rule out a flaky IDE Port/ Cables, since everything works fine under Knoppix.

Will try to use new disk then, and see if this helps.
Regards, Thorsten

Okay, now I tried it all:
An alternate Disk with SMBG did not work either.

The regular SMB version though made all 4 drives available! But of course showed a network error due to the presence of the Intel 1000 Pro.

Which lets me conclude that the "Non-generic" IDE Driver in SMBG is the culprit.
Possible to fix?
I'll be glad to help with any Syslogs

Regards, Thorsten

Tony,
Now with SMB (rather than SMBG) I am up and running - with my old, slow Network Card .

One more lay question: I now have 4 hdd's installed.
Three are formatted as EXT2 (these are the ones I would like to primarily use in the NAS Box.)
Disk-2 is in EXT3, since I installed the Knoppix Linux on that one, and it does show up in my Windows network.

If I was to write/ read from this particular disk now, could NASLite (being designed for EXT2) ruin files in the process?
(Otherwise, if that is not the case, I might as well format all drives in EXT3 or reiserFS and then use them in NASLite, correct?)

Please advise.

Following I am posting the 'new' syslog (of SMB):
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Server System Log

Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS daemon.info init: Starting pid 335, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS syslog.notice klogd: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Linux version 2.4.26.NASLite (root@(none)) (gcc version 3.3.2) #10 Mon Jun 14 14:07:53 MDT 2004
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ffd800 (usable)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ffd800 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.notice klogd: 127MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: On node 0 totalpages: 32765
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(1): 28669 pages.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: zone(2): 0 pages.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: DMI not present.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Kernel command line:
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Initializing CPU#0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Detected 498.479 MHz processor.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Memory: 127500k/131060k available (1044k kernel code, 3172k reserved, 281k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.debug klogd: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.debug klogd: CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Checking for popad bug... OK.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd994, last bus=1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Initializing RT netlink socket
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: Starting kswapd
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: FW Version=$Version$
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: pcnet32.c:v1.28 02.20.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: originally by Donald Becker
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: 2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: PCI: Enabling device 00:10.0 (0104 -> 0107)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc8800000, 00:40:f4:34:76:58, IRQ 9.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.25.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: WDC WD400BB-00FJA0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct08 08, ATA DISK drive
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: WDC WD2500JB-53EVA0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hda: host protected area => 1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdb: host protected area => 1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: hdb: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdc: host protected area => 1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: 8397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: hdd: host protected area => 1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: hdd: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=159560/16/63
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Partition check:
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.notice klogd: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 803
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.notice klogd: eth0: link up.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.info klogd: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd: EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
Sep 24 00:52:31 NAS user.warn klogd:
Sep 24 00:52:48 NAS auth.info login[333]: root login on `vc/1'
Sep 24 00:53:01 NAS daemon.info init: Process '/sbin/getty 38400 vc/1' (pid 333) exited. Scheduling it for restart.
Sep 24 00:53:01 NAS daemon.info init: Starting pid 390, console /dev/vc/1: '/sbin/getty'
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Would be great, if it's possible to fix the SMBG Version!
Kind Regards,
Thorsten

Thorsten,

EXT3 in an extention of EXT2. That's why your other versions see the drives. I beleive they should be able to read and write to them, but they wont have their journaling working. That may cause corruption when you switch back to EXT3, as it will be looking for a journal that's not there or not complete.

Under Knoppix, you should be able to format the drive to EXT2. I know that an EXT2 drive can be 'extended' to EXT3 w/o a reformat or loss of data, but I'm not sure the reverse is true.

Tim

Hi Thorsten,

Two things:

First, what you are trying to do with Knoppix and NASLite is probably not a good idea. I’d recommend against it and suggest that you pick an OS and stick with it. The problem is that sooner or later something will go wrong and you may loose a large amount of data based on the drive sizes you are using. From a server standpoint, that’s a no-no!

Second, regarding your IDE1 problem – there appears to be a number of issues involving some boards with PIIX4 and Linux, mostly DMA problems. I’m not sure that making changes to the G versions is a good idea unless this is a problem on other machines with the same chipset. Since you are the first to report the problem, I’d ask anyone else to please post if they experience the same or similar problem.

Otherwise, I’ll make a last attempt at getting G running as follows:
- Disable all HDs in the BIOS
- Disable Power Management
- Check your IRQ and DMA allocations and correct if necessary
- Disable any BIOS controlled devices (sound, mouse, etc.) that may be causing a conflict
- Try the COMPATIBILITY autoconfiguration option in the BIOS if available

Again, if someone else is having the same problem, please post and let us know that it isn’t isolated to Thorsten’s machine.

I have tried the SMBG,FTPG versions compared to the SMB,FTP versions in the same machine , same settings except for rtl8169(1000mb) vs rtl8139(100mb).

There is a difference ! In the regular with the 100mb card all disks are found & formated, data transfered successfully. In the 1000mb card, only 2 disks are found (on the 1st ide drive). Disk 3 & 4 -not available.

I switched back to the 100mb card , and voila the other 2 drives are found. with data on them.
So there seems to be a slight glitch in the G versions of NASlite kernel.

chang