NASLite Network Attached Storage

NASLite-M2 v1.01 is due out first week of February, provided everything goes as planned. The preliminary changes to be included in v1.01 since v1.00 are as follows:

1. Upgrade kernel to 2.4.27
2. Update DAAP daemon to latest stable
3. Add OGG support to DAAP
4. Correct DAAP/MDNS issue when AFP is disabled
5. Eliminate connect message from AFP
6. Add installer option to format single bootable partition for USB flash
7. Add installer functionality to upgrade single bootable partition for USB flash
8. Add logic to detect single partition boot drives and disallow accidental formatting
9. Add logic to display different than generic message when formatting storage on a boot drive
10. Disable MEDIA export of mirror drives
11. Correct swap initialization issue
12. Perform general code cleanup, tweaks, etc.

You said "Upgrade kernel to 2.4.27" is that right? Because on a Ubuntu server I have it's "2.6.27-9-server" just one number 4 to 6. If not right why don't you use the 2.6.27 kernel?

I hoping this one will give me full speed on the built in Ethernet on the small Mini-ITX I am running it on now. It's so slow saving files to it but getting files are fast. With a more updated kernel I think will have a better chance of it working good with the built in Ethernet.

-Raymond Day

Still planning on release this week?

NASLite-M2 v1.01 is now available for download: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2834

I might be missing something *really obvious* (and feel free to shoot me down in flames if I am) but...

Having eagerly awaited M2's release (for moths more than was promised), I downloaded it almost as soon as it was made available. I've endured a couple of aspects of sub-par functionality, always the risk you run as an early adopter, but not posted questions here as I'm a patient and understanding sort of chap and decided to wait for others to raise the issues (some if which have indeed since been raised here) or for the first maintenance release to appear.

Lo and behold, I get an email inviting me to download and install v.1.01. Great!

Actually, not so great. I submitted my M2 download link, and am now faced with an upgrades screen asking me for $22.72.

What?

I've just forked out $35, and you want another $22+ for the first point release? The release notes for which suggest it's more like a patch?

Please, be fair.

I've been with Naslite for a while. I've waited patiently for M2 to appear, hoping it would be the final piece in my home entertainment jigsaw. I installed M2 and have stuck with it though there are some features which are unusable with my current setup, trusting that an early upgrade would sort these out. But to ask me to pay two thirds of the original price again for this upgrade? I'm disgusted.

v1 = $35
v1.01 = another $22.72

Someone, please explain this to me. Again, if I have done something wrong here, if in actual fact it should be a free download for me, great - I will offer the fullest apology possible. But if this is right? Then I've had it, you can stick Naslite where the sun don't shine.

PeterC,

All you have to do is use your existing download link to go to the download page. There you'll find the latest NASLite-M2 release (per the associated file release date) ready for you to download free of charge.

The upgrade page is for cross-product and additional license discounts. If all you are doing is updating your existing license, then use the existing link.

Hope that makes sense.

Can you please elaborate so we can review and address...

Thanks for your patience.

Whats the product description say in the revalidation screen?

I bet it doesn't say NASLite-M2 since *no* M2 installations have expired yet. Please double check the link you are clicking and make sure it's for your M2 purchase.

Thanks.

A thousand apologies. You can firmly chalk this one down to user error; it didn't help that I was a little...er...'tired and emotional' when I posted last night. Thank you for your patience and restraint in replying.

I'll post here with the difficulties I've experienced when I have a little more time.

Thanks again

OGG support under DAAP! Fantastic!! Thanks guys.

Thanks also for reinstating the option to format a USB flash drive as a single large partition.

Forgive my stupidity, but are you referring to the download link in the original email I received when downloading M2? That page has the following date/size/hash:

I don't see version info and didn't want to proceed unless sure this is 1.01.

Thanks,
Scott

I'm pretty sure you got M2 before January 25 2009, so i guess what you'd be getting is a newer file.

After clearing my browser cache I got the correct version (Feb 9, 2009). Thanks.

One issue with the new version: I installed and rebooted with no errors. However, after disabling uPNP (I have no devices that use it) and rebooting, I received the following error on the console: "/etc/ServerElements/bin/NL2-0B: 492: Syntax Error: 100--56". All functions seem to be normal, as well as my syslog (from what I can tell:

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* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2008.07.26-02:54+0000)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Linux version 2.4.37.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Mon Jan 12 23:05:48 EST 2009
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fdf0000 (usable)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf0000 - 000000000fdf8000 (ACPI data)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf8000 - 000000000fe00000 (ACPI NVS)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] 253MB LOWMEM available.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] On node 0 totalpages: 65008
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] zone(0): 4096 pages.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] zone(1): 60912 pages.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] zone(2): 0 pages.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] ACPI disabled because your bios is from 97 and too old
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] You can enable it with acpi=force
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] No local APIC present or hardware disabled
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Initializing CPU#0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Detected 501.143 MHz processor.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Calibrating delay loop. 999.42 BogoMIPS
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Memory: 248592k/260032k available (2326k kernel code, 11052k reserved, 684k data, 560k init, 0k highmem)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [1] CPU: After generic, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [1] CPU: Common caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] PCI: Using IRQ router SIS5595 [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [5] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 00:02.0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Initializing RT netlink socket
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] Starting kswapd
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Journalled Block Device driver loaded
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] devfs: boot_options: 0x1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] 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
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] FW Version=$Version$
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ThunderLAN driver v1.15
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] sk98lin: No adapter found.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [5] 8139cp: pci dev 00:09.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [5] 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd0800f00, 00:50:ba:d3:8d:d7, IRQ 10
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [1] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] debus=xx
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] SIS5513: chipset revision 208
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] SIS5513: SiS530 ATA 66 controller
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hda: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdb: WDC WD1200BB-00CAA0, ATA DISK drive
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdc: WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A0, ATA DISK drive
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdd: LTN403, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hda: attached ide-disk driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hda: host protected area => 1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hda: setmax_ext LBA 234441648, native 234435439
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hda: 234435439 sectors (120031 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14592/255/63, UDMA(66)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdb: host protected area => 1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(66)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdc: host protected area => 1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hdc: 976773168 sectors (500108 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63, UDMA(66)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Partition check:
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jan 12 2009 23:06:00)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] scsi: Detection failed (no card)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [1] libata version 1.20 loaded.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [5] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usb.c: registered new driver hub
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0806000, IRQ 11
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, PCI device 1039:7001
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] USB Mass Storage support registered.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [3] RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 4137k freed
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Mounted devfs on /dev
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 560k freed
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,1), internal journal
* Feb 10 03:30:18 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
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I have turned uPNP back on and the error has disappeared.

Thanks,
Scott

Strangely enough, the download link date has now reverted back to January 25 2009. Who's playing with the server pages? You trying to gaslight us guys?

Scott,

The date on the download page has always been the date of the iso file, so if the one you have is an earlier vintage then you got an update. Another thing you can look at is the file size and also the md5 of the file you have. If you have a known good iso and the md5 is different then you got an update. What i'm saying is that you don't really need the version number to tell if you need to download or not.