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OS6 now works on x86 Legacy WARNING: NO NTGR SUPPORT!
Update: It is now unofficially possible using NTGR images to update legacy hardware to os6.X
See Post #3, for directions to install 6.2.1 on x86 Ultra and Pro Models. (ARM NOT SUPPORTED by this OS)
Be forewarned, this requires a SYSTEM WIPE and likely voids any warranty support from NTGR
Supported so far: pro 2/4/6, ultra 2/4/6, old pro / Pioneer Pro, 2100v2
Not Supported: NVX and 2100v1
Thanks go out to "HomeBrew Anonymous" for making this possible.
Update 2: A firmware image to downgrade back to 4.2.26 is now available. See this thread. While this downgrade should get you a working system again on the supported firmware, be forewarned this requires a SYSTEM WIPE and NetGear also does not provide support for this downgrade. If you have issues seek help on these forums.
Original Post/Gripes
I have been reading these forums since Monday's announcement and there has been a resounding "ooof" regarding the fact the Ultras and Pros are unsupported for future OS improvements.
To clear the air: it would appear Netgear will never support os6 on past hardware. I have almost come to grips with this, and at least they have been open and honest with their forward direction and aren't stringing us along. viewtopic.php?f=138&t=70131
The upside is our devices still work and are mostly stable and eventually we can upgrade to a new shell that has os6 support, but in the meantime our $500-1000 investment is unable to take advantage of modern features we all desire.
I don't think I can add a poll here at RN forums, but I would like to garner support for a 100% unsupported home brew of the os6 on Pro6 units.
If we get enough support perhaps a talented member(s) here would help release a homebrew of sorts.
The 3 main caveats are:
1. Netgear will never be held responsible/your warranty is void
2. A format is required (new FS and OS)
3. Data loss is highly possible
If you are still interested please post a reply to this thread.
mdgm and I have decided that its time to lock this thread. So please do post any new OS6 on Legacy issues on their own threads.
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chirpa wrote: It checks if your serial number is registered. If you had registered it previously, either manually on support site, or via Registration button (OS4), it would go away in OS6 also once it does its phone home.
There actually is no registration status phone home in OS6. It is all based on a flag that gets set once you click on the Register button.- Even better, and much simpler!
fream wrote: fream wrote:
Future stuff
I plan on testing to activate Jumbo frames to see if I can get better performance. And also to get a better network switch to be able to use network bonding (on both the Pro6 and the Mac Pro) to see if I can get better throughput.
I also plan on maybe setting up iSCSI and move some of my Aperture libraries to the NAS. That requires to buy a iSCSI-driver for OSX though...
So far a very happy upgrade and purchase! Looking forward to any feedback on the above and also new features in the coming releases of OS6!
I've just configured iSCSI with CHAP on OS6 6.1.2 (RN102) using the free GlobalSan iSCSI initiator 4.1 on OSX 10.8.5 :) So, no need to purchase an expensive license :)Skywalker wrote: There actually is no registration status phone home in OS6. It is all based on a flag that gets set once you click on the Register button.
In that case, that function doesn't seem to work. At least it didn't on my NAS.nasischijf wrote: fream wrote: fream wrote:
Future stuff
I plan on testing to activate Jumbo frames to see if I can get better performance. And also to get a better network switch to be able to use network bonding (on both the Pro6 and the Mac Pro) to see if I can get better throughput.
I also plan on maybe setting up iSCSI and move some of my Aperture libraries to the NAS. That requires to buy a iSCSI-driver for OSX though...
So far a very happy upgrade and purchase! Looking forward to any feedback on the above and also new features in the coming releases of OS6!
I've just configured iSCSI with CHAP on OS6 6.1.2 (RN102) using the free GlobalSan iSCSI initiator 4.1 on OSX 10.8.5 :) So, no need to purchase an expensive license :)
Nice! I didn't know that version was supported or worked on 10.8. Is it 64-bit? Would be good to hear your experiences going forward. Have you done any benchmarks or stress test of it?- Is anyone else seeing absolutely abysmal write performance on iSCSI with OS6? Talking about 3-4 MB/s with sequential random data writes after some time.
7TB LUN, four-disk Ultra4, RAID5. Edit: related to TrueCrypt in some way.
Creating a new (1TB), fresh LUN and disabling "continuous protection" for this LUN improves speed, but still only to 30-40 MB/s, which is much, much slower than OS4. edit: this is false, but I have no real performance numbers as of now
Regarding this, what does the "Continuous protection" checkbox actually do? One could guess that it would disable copy-on-write for the iscsi container, but that is done anyway (as it really, really should!) according to lsattr for the file. Some kind of manual snapshotting? - BTW, the performance problem is at its worst when using a TrueCrypt container on top of the iSCSI partition. Investigations are ongoing but my suspicion is that CoW isn't really disabled on the iSCSI container. Edit: doesn't matter if "Continuous protection" is unselected when creating a LUN, still useless performance. Found a bug though: even when you use thick provisioning, you can enable compression for the LUN afterwards in settings, although this is said to be impossible when creating a thick LUN. I have no idea if this actually tries to enable compression on the existing thick LUN.
- Continuous protection == automatic scheduled snapshots. You can still take snapshots with CoW disabled on btrfs. It will still do the CoW as necessary if there is a snapshot reference.
- OK. Any theories on the extreme slowness with TrueCrypt?
- Are there any lingering snapshots? If there are, then the first new write to any area of the LUN will result in a CoW operation. What iSCSI initiator?
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