OS6 now works on x86 Legacy WARNING: NO NTGR SUPPORT!

i'm not sure to understand everything but i love your actual reflection
Please carry on !!

I've been dabbling with this idea myself for awhile, but had some hopes of RAIDiator 5 arriving.
Thanks to AMRivlin for bringing this up.
Decided to hack my Ultra 6 with a standard OS, but if people are willing to contribute to a proper solution, I am all game.
I am puzzled by Netgear missing an excellent oppertunity to unify their OS base.
Now they will have to maintain RAIDiator 4, RAIDiator 5, ReadyNAS OS 6, and READdata OS.
And why on earth have they overlapping product portfolio on the SMB/ME marked?

Please be aware that ReadyNAS OS 6 source will NOT include ReadyCLOUD, ReadyDROP, webGUI, genie, replicate etc, etc.
Those components are closed source. Based on RAIDiator source, the core is pretty much stock debian.
I think there are only a few drivers missing for full HW support in up2date linux kernel: front button, LCD and ???

So what we will get access to is only a slightly modified Debian install, so why not go with stock Debian, or some other distro?
Kick starting a standard install like chirpa described does probaly not require a huge effort...
It also raises my hopes that people like http://natisbad.org/ is submitting code upstream!
Sadly it seem like the ones who needs it the most are left dangling. (SPARC units)

Do people here want the Netgear ease of setup and idiot proof setup?
In that case we need to do a lot of work to get a proper setup/recovery rutine and develop a proper web GUI.
What about some more vertical distros like NAS4Free, ClearOS, etc
Would people be willing to pay a small fee? How about a free version with a limited functionality and pay for premium/enterprise features?
Of are you seeeking a complete open source and free model?

Maybe we should start a project defining what we need as a first step?

Chirpa, will Nexenta be one of the options listed? ;)
Please join the ReadyNAS liberation movement!

BTW: I found a place for cheap long VGA cable, anyone tried theese?
http://www.pccables.com/07129.html

bajorgensen wrote:
BTW: I found a place for cheap long VGA cable, anyone tried theese? http://www.pccables.com/07129.html

Debian 6 or recent but stable 'SSH compatible' distrib should be perfect, no really need of vga , frontview or graphical install
The main limitation with actual software is the dependancies jungle, etch is out of date for most of nowadays servers technos
Maybe something lighter than debian 6 or more turnkey like freenas or other else is a good solution

chirpa wrote:
My end goal will be like this... # wget myscript.sh; chmod +x myscript.sh; ./myscript.sh # Pick an image from below: 1. blah 2. bleh 3. blih # 1 # Updating boot flash with 'blah'. # Update finished, reboot to start up in 'blah'.

LOVE

actually i would love this.

i'll probably be buying one of the new ones sooner or later, but most of the non-open parts of os6 i'm simply not interested in. i relly don't like readyclod, readybox, genie and the rest of the bunch. good call with regard to btrfs though.

the dropbox plugin that furrently exists does more for me than most of these do. and i'm no big fan of external dependencies like admin via readycloud.

as for the webgui part: i'm no fan of the new frontend. it's much better than the old frontview, but for my tastes it still gives not nearly enough information about what's going on. and lacks some crucial functionality in my view. i've started a framework in python over christmas, that could be used quite transparently to replace the gui/frontview part. although it does need plenty of work still. i did that in python, btw, anyone interested can have a peek. this thing came out of my frustration with frontview and the direction taken on the v2 arm boxes.

cheers
s.

great idea chirpa.
+1 for any help i can be. testing etc..

I have a pro 6 , 4 that id like to play with..

NTGR finally posted the GPL package for ReadyNAS OS 6; ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/R ... WW_src.zip

Let the games begin. I mean, let the true user based support begin!

Very nice!

On the fan stuff you mention, it wouldn't take much to manually/cronjob update the fan speeds, until built-in support is there.

Looking at a 4.2 system:

ultra:~# cat /ramfs/enclosure.cfg 
fan!!0!!desc=SYS,selfcontrolled=1,minrpm=1800,required=1,alternate=0,path=/sys/devices/platform/it87.2576/fan1_input,in_path=/sys/devices/platform/it87.2576/pwm1
ultra:~# echo 255 > /sys/devices/platform/it87.2576/pwm1
ultra:~# echo 50 > /sys/devices/platform/it87.2576/pwm1

You can do the same echo lines on a 6.0 box. So setup a cronjob to watch the temp values (also referenced in the enclosure.cfg), and if the temps get too high, turn up the fan speed. The PWM value would be 0-255 (min-max).