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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
Got the 516... switching the drives was no problem. Everything seems to be working okay.
I still have SERIOUS problems with USB devices:
1. The drives auto-mount as a share with extremely liberal permissions and all protocols. Even if I manually remove all the protocols, when I eject the drive and re-insert it, it's auto-mounted and shared with those overly liberal permissions and all protocols again. THIS IS VERY BAD.
2. There's no way to format, partition, or otherwise prepare a "new" USB device. As a test, I pulled a USB drive and nuked the partition table with a MacBook. When I insert the drive in the 516, it's unusable. (It also seemed unusable when I partitioned it and formatted as plain FAT.)
3. I am able to back up to the USB devices now from the UI, but only if I pre-format the drive manually. My way of dealing with that was to insert a blank USB drive, drop to ssh, run fdisk to partition (fdisk /dev/sdf1, n, accept all defaults, w) and then format by hand (mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf1) Once I did that, I'd remove and re-insert the drive and I could back up to it. I doubt this is a supported way of doing things, but I can't find any alternative. (I don't have any other linux box running at the moment to format ext3 with.)
@mdgm, is this post enough to report the problem, or do I have to go through the nightmare of dealing with netgear's phone support? (Actually, phone support won't talk to me while I'm running 6.1.9 RC11.)
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In other 516 news, I like the new box a bit better than the old one. It appears to run cooler, and doesn't require 5 layers of electrical tape to turn down the brightness of the power button LED. I'm not sure what I think about the new drive trays.. the plastic rails seems fragile, but at least I can also use real screws. The reset button on the back was difficult for me to use (big hole but tiny little button inside.) The touchpad is kind of interesting. It's nice to be able to view so many different stats on the front panel using the touchpad. However, purple isn't my favorite color..
Take care
Gary
I still have SERIOUS problems with USB devices:
1. The drives auto-mount as a share with extremely liberal permissions and all protocols. Even if I manually remove all the protocols, when I eject the drive and re-insert it, it's auto-mounted and shared with those overly liberal permissions and all protocols again. THIS IS VERY BAD.
2. There's no way to format, partition, or otherwise prepare a "new" USB device. As a test, I pulled a USB drive and nuked the partition table with a MacBook. When I insert the drive in the 516, it's unusable. (It also seemed unusable when I partitioned it and formatted as plain FAT.)
3. I am able to back up to the USB devices now from the UI, but only if I pre-format the drive manually. My way of dealing with that was to insert a blank USB drive, drop to ssh, run fdisk to partition (fdisk /dev/sdf1, n, accept all defaults, w) and then format by hand (mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf1) Once I did that, I'd remove and re-insert the drive and I could back up to it. I doubt this is a supported way of doing things, but I can't find any alternative. (I don't have any other linux box running at the moment to format ext3 with.)
@mdgm, is this post enough to report the problem, or do I have to go through the nightmare of dealing with netgear's phone support? (Actually, phone support won't talk to me while I'm running 6.1.9 RC11.)
...
In other 516 news, I like the new box a bit better than the old one. It appears to run cooler, and doesn't require 5 layers of electrical tape to turn down the brightness of the power button LED. I'm not sure what I think about the new drive trays.. the plastic rails seems fragile, but at least I can also use real screws. The reset button on the back was difficult for me to use (big hole but tiny little button inside.) The touchpad is kind of interesting. It's nice to be able to view so many different stats on the front panel using the touchpad. However, purple isn't my favorite color..
Take care
Gary
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