NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi

Are there any plans to support SATA CD-ROM for installation. I have SATA HDDS for a SATA only box which doesn't support legacy mode. I do have IDE boxes with IDE CD-ROM but no SATA so cannot install there and move to the SATA box. At the moment I have no options unless SATA CD-ROM is supported soon. Hope so because tests on the IDE box were fantastic.

Well thanks to no-one for your help on this. I thought forums were supposed to be helpful. I posted earlier in the week because I had to do a server install today and was hoping to use Naslite but it goes live tomorrow so I had to use Win 2003 server. Windows installed, Naslite in the bin.....

From what I can gather there will be support for SATA CDROM drives when the new kernel is released. I do not know why you would want to boot from a CDROM in the first place since a USB key is a better choice for your needs. If your machine doesn't have any PATA connectors then tell us how you thought you were going to store the config file for NL on a floppy drive that you have no port for either?

Enjoy your windows server and the hung file transfers you will get along with it. I never had much luck using it as a file server unless it was the Win2K server version which still sucks.

You do realize that there are few of us here that are even capable of answering your questions and with the summertime here we are less likely to be at our computers and more likely to be at the beach, a lake, or a pool.

Mike

Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply.

The server has no PATA or floppy drive and the reason I purchased Naslite2-HDD is to boot from the Naslite CD and install the OS on the first internal HDD. After that I was going to format the rest of Disk-0 for file sharing. This is exactly what I did on an PATA only test machine so I don't understand why you are asking about storing the config on a floppy. The config is stored in this hidden partition on Disk-0. Being a server I wanted the machine to have no external dependencies such as USB sticks or CD roms, can you explain what is wrong with that?

The machine has to boot from the CD for installation only, after that it is not required. Can I ask how else you think I could install the OS if I don't want the USB or CD ROm version?

The server is Windows 2003 R2 and running extremely well. The other advantage over Naslite is that I can have a DAT drive in it and back up locally with a single server licence instead of over the LAN.

Unfortunately I am not near a beach, or have time for pools or lakes, too busy trying to get software to work

Cheers

Tony

Pull the drive that you want the OS installed on and hang it on a machine that does have both interfaces on it. Then build it like normal. After you get the OS installed on the HDD simply move it back to the machine you plan to use it on and do the final configuration. Don't forget to save and reboot to make sure the changes take hold. The only thing left after all that is to get an unlock code and enter it, really easy and fast.

DAT seems awful small for a back up device not to mention painfully slow. For less than $100.00 USD you can get a 500GB drive and use it as a backup target in NL using the mirror function built in.

Good luck,

Mike

Yes I would have done that if I had a machine with both, unfortunately I had only all PATA or all SATA so could not move the install HDD between machines.

I was going to mirror two 250GB drives for quicker restore but with a mirror, if you write garbage or lose a file on the source drive then this is mirrored also, therefore tape backup is essential for a server if you need to go back in time for files. The backup window is overnight so speed is not an issue.

Cheers.

Just a update on this, while debugging M2, would found and fixed this issue with installation from SATA cdrom's.

This turned out to be an issue with the Linux 2.4 kernel and was easily fixed once identified, this fix should make it into the 2.07 release of NASLite-2.

They have SATA to IDE converters. I have one. It has jumpers on it to make it SATA to IDE or IDE to SATA. Looks on google for SATA to IDE. Looks like you can get them for about $15 or $20.

-Raymond Day