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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => DNS-343 => D-Link Storage => beta code! => Topic started by: JavaLawyer on June 03, 2011, 03:27:49 PM
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The latest beta firmware update (v.1.05b01) is now posted.
Two firmware updates inside of a month, what more can you ask for? :)
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Went to download the firmware today and the directory only contains dns343_fw_104b03_beta.zip
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ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns343/Beta/Firmware/dns343_FW_105_beta
It wasn't put in a zip file but the firmware IS in there.
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Thanks. My bad. . . the FTP directory was cached in my browser and wasn't refreshed.
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I am always the first to complain about D-Link's lack of support, so let me be among the first to compliment them on the support that is going on now.
That being said, I have updated to 1.05b01 without issue. The one thing I did notice after update was:
Current NAS Firmware Version : 1.05
Current OLED Firmware Version : 1.04
I don't know if this is intentional or not.
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I am always the first to complain about D-Link's lack of support, so let me be among the first to compliment them on the support that is going on now.
That being said, I have updated to 1.05b01 without issue. The one thing I did notice after update was:
Current NAS Firmware Version : 1.05
Current OLED Firmware Version : 1.04
I don't know if this is intentional or not.
I assume you mean the firmware version being displayed on the OLED screen correct?
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I installed v1.05x on one DNS-343, and so far so good.
...I have updated to 1.05b01 without issue. The one thing I did notice after update was:
Current NAS Firmware Version : 1.05
Current OLED Firmware Version : 1.04
My DNS-343 displays the proper version (1.05) on the web interface and OLED. Did you try rebooting the unit?
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I assume you mean the firmware version being displayed on the OLED screen correct?
On the OLED screen the firmware version shows 1.05, as it should.
When accessing the settings section via web browser under the Maintentance tab and "Firmware Upgrade" section where you go to initiate a firmware upgrade it shows:
Current NAS Firmware Version : 1.05
Current OLED Firmware Version : 1.04
This may be correct information and that is what I am asking. Should they match? In other words, after upgrading to the current beta (1.05b01) are we still supposed to be at OLED firmware version 1.04?
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From what I remember, the OLED firmware was not changed in this version.
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So far mine is stuck at "System is booting....."
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So far mine is stuck at "System is booting....."
If your system is stuck at boot, you may want to try resetting to the factory defaults by holding the button on the rear of the device for 5 seconds, rebooting, and trying the upgrade again.
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Sorry for the late response but it finally did boot last night. Thanks for the previous advice.
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Yes, it took longer than usual to rebooting the device after 1.05 update, thought I had bricked it but was relieved to see it come back up.
Did JavaLawyer say he had both Current NAS Firmware Version and Current OLED Firmware Version showing up as 1.05? my Current OLED Firmware Version is still at 1.04
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Yes, it took longer than usual to rebooting the device after 1.05 update, thought I had bricked it but was relieved to see it come back up.
Did JavaLawyer say he had both Current NAS Firmware Version and Current OLED Firmware Version showing up as 1.05? my Current OLED Firmware Version is still at 1.04
My error, the OLED firmware is v1.04. D-Link did not perform any updates to the OLED firmware in this latest beta version.
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All good, it's nice to see DLINK addressing the fan error straight away.
The only issue I have found with 1.05b01 is that there seems to be more fan activity than the prior firmware 1.04b03 I was using
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What about the oled "disk full" message - is the "disable" option working properly now?
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So my Scan disk option stops at 70% and fails everytime I run it. Just what i've noticed...
I would like to see a disk optimization feature to rid the dreaded slow speeds that happen from time to time where people have to move the data to external drives and reformat the disks in the dns-343 to only move the data back to it. That's a bit much if you ask me. What's the point of having a NAS?
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I have noticed the SMART test takes on the magnitude 20 minutes to complete whereas on 1.03, it took about a minute to complete.
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Got home yesterday and my DNS-343 was unresponsive, couldn't ping it or log into it. Everything on the network was fine when looking at the box physically, no harddrives were spun up, no fans were blowing all I had was the screen telling me everything was fine. I set my IP and subnet mask manually to match the subnet and IP scheme it was on and plugged in directly with my laptop. Nothing....after manually powering down which it got stuck doing and rebooting it multiple times I got nothing. So I reset it and got he 169.254.x.x IP address. I set my laptop to match and connected directly and via the switch it was connected to and was able to log in fine. So I figured no biggie, I started configuring it and the only thing I changed was the IP, Subnet mask, Gateway and DNS. I click save....and boom. Locked up. I reboot manually and the screen shows the right IP, but no connectivity again. Nor could I directly connect. I reset to defaults again and this time tried to set it up via DHCP, clicked save...boom, locked again. So I figured, leave it over night after resetting again and configuring the IP, maybe it just needs time. Nope, no good. So tonight when I get home I'm loading 1.03 back on it. Hopefully it works!
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Has anyone configure a RAID5 with this firmware version? I keep getting Volume_1 degraded and Rebuilding has taken 36 hours so far and the mins keep going up and down, at one point it was on 874 mins last night and now it's 1156 mins left
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Great.....downgrading to 1.03 bricked it. Anyone have a way to get data off a raid-5 config without the dns-343? I just lost 4.5Tb if not.
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From what I have read in these fourms, you will need to plug all drives into a PC and from there, there is software that can retrieve your data, but didn't get the name of it, maybe someone else can help, I'm gutted you have bricked your device
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Great.....downgrading to 1.03 bricked it. Anyone have a way to get data off a raid-5 config without the dns-343? I just lost 4.5Tb if not.
There is a third party application called "R-Studio" that (in theory) will enable you to mount your four HDD RAID 5 array in a PC. I haven't tried the software myself, so you'll have to investigate on your own.
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Just for anyone trying to get to the download but having trouble, you may want to switch browsers.
I'm on Mac and my Safari simply would not go to the ftp site with/without the cache reset. Had to open in Firefox (I have no idea why). It could be that I have extra add-ons in firefox that enabled it or something - just thought I would give a heads up.
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Just for anyone trying to get to the download but having trouble, you may want to switch browsers.
I'm on Mac and my Safari simply would not go to the ftp site with/without the cache reset. Had to open in Firefox (I have no idea why). It could be that I have extra add-ons in firefox that enabled it or something - just thought I would give a heads up.
Firefox also creates a cache of the FTP directory. Reloading the page refreshes the directory contents.
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Hello
How can I find out, that the Disks are now running whit Advanced Format. I use 4 WD20EARS in RAID5 and I have format the disks new under FW 1.05 so it should run whit AF but how can I know it exactly?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
MAG
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Hello
How can I find out, that the Disks are now running whit Advanced Format. I use 4 WD20EARS in RAID5 and I have format the disks new under FW 1.05 so it should run whit AF but how can I know it exactly?
The WD20EARS are advanced format HDDs. Although FW 1.05 supports advanced format HDDs, D-Link did not post a list of compatible drives, so I can not say whether the WD20EARS is fully supported.
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i see in release notes that this fixes the fan can't rotate error message
v1.05
1. Support Advanced Format Disk.
2. Fix some ADS issues with groups not always appearing
3. Fix "fan can't rotate" error message.
i have 2 units with that issue which i assumed meant the fans aren't spinning, can someone provide details as to what the "fix" is?
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Has anyone configure a RAID5 with this firmware version? I keep getting Volume_1 degraded and Rebuilding has taken 36 hours so far and the mins keep going up and down, at one point it was on 874 mins last night and now it's 1156 mins left
i will be, installing now will post my results
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i will be, installing now will post my results
ok, i just finished complete rebuild on one of my units.
1. blew away entire unit
2. installed 1.04
3. initialize / format HDD's with R5
4. upgrade to 1.05b
status:
HARD DRIVE INFO :
Volume Name: Volume_1
Volume Type: RAID 5
Sync Time Remaining: Completed
Total Hard Drive Capacity: 5900656 MB
Used Space: 5921 MB
Unused Space: 5894735 MB
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i see in release notes that this fixes the fan can't rotate error message
v1.05
1. Support Advanced Format Disk.
2. Fix some ADS issues with groups not always appearing
3. Fix "fan can't rotate" error message.
i have 2 units with that issue which i assumed meant the fans aren't spinning, can someone provide details as to what the "fix" is?
The "fan can't rotate" message in firmware release v1.04 is erroneous - a software glitch that appeared when D-Link upgraded the firmware code going from v1.04b to v1.04. The false error was written out of the code in v.1.05b.
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The "fan can't rotate" message in firmware release v1.04 is erroneous - a software glitch that appeared when D-Link upgraded the firmware code going from v1.04b to v1.04. The false error was written out of the code in v.1.05b.
shoot now i need to go reinstall my other 2 units and see if fans are really bad or not!!
thanks
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shoot now i need to go reinstall my other 2 units and see if fans are really bad or not!!
thanks
If you walk-through the "fans can't rotate error in system logs after upgrade from 1.04b3 to 1.04" thread (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=38495.0) on the main board, you'll see that a huge number of DNS-343 owners were hit with this message immediately upon updating to the public firmware v1.04 release. I have two healthy DNS-343s and they both displayed this message immediately upon updating from FW v1.04b3 to v1.04. The messages immediately disappeared after upgrading from firmware v1.04 to v.1.05b01.
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can i update from fw 1.03 to fw 1.05b01 directly? or do i have to install 1.04 public release first?
like i said i have fw 1.03 with 4 WD20EARS, whats the problem with those kind of disks?
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You can update between any two firmware versions. No incremental upgrade is required.
I can't speak to the WD20EARS specifically, but will say that the DNS-343 has had problems with RAID 5 arrays using advanced format drives. I do not have any information on the success rate of RAID 5 using advance format HDDs with the latest beta firmware.
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I hate that D-Link never release a stable firmware. Always beta, beta, beta... :(
I want to see a stable, properly tested firmware being released.
Now that DNS-345 was released I can imagine that they will never release a final firmware for 343. Wouldn't be the first time to see D-link abandoning old devices without proper firmware being released.
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I hate that D-Link never release a stable firmware. Always beta, beta, beta... :(
I want to see a stable, properly tested firmware being released.
The latest DNS-343 beta firmware resolved a number of instability issues inherent in some of the prior public releases. What instability issues are you referring to?
Now that DNS-345 was released I can imagine that they will never release a final firmware for 343. Wouldn't be the first time to see D-link abandoning old devices without proper firmware being released.
D-Link has not abandoned the DNS-343. The normal product life cycle for this type of technology is typically 1 to 3 years, during which time D-Link adequately supported the DNS-343.
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Just a personal opinion.
In the years I have been using D-Link DNS-343 (since its first launch till about slightly more than 8 months ago), I have been faithfully waiting and waiting for D-Link to really pull up its socks to really give its NAS product a real solid push in terms of its firmware stability and probably some of the basic features which other NAS makers already have in their products.
Sad to say, I have finally give up hope and abandoned D-Link. D-Link is just not what it used to, with the changes (internally) that happened in recent handful of years.
Having been on QNAP for the last 8-9 months, I have been a very very very satisfied customer and still so excited about the TS-459 I have as every quarterly or so, the firmware update not only packs fixes but new features and also updating to support latest basic infrastructure services (such as Mac OS X Lion Server Open Directory, AFP). I would say, I will never look back again and never going to recommend D-Link NAS again even to friends and acquaintances. Just simply one reason: "Importance of NAS (storage) has grown so much even in SOHO or Home infra that an unreliable NAS (high risk of data loss) is just not acceptable."
Nowadays, NAS is used to store GBs (if not TBs) of precious photos and videos which are precious memories and moments of life that are not replaceable. Who wants to invest in a RAID-capable storage device that isn't any better in fail-safe/redundancy than what a PC-onboard SATA RAID can do?!
Just a consumer perspective.
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I respect your opinion and agree with you on a couple of minor points. However, unless I'm mistaken the QNAP TS-459 is at a significantly higher price point than the DNS-343 and isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. To D-Link's credit, the next generation of NAS such as the DNS-320, DNS-325, and forthcoming DNS-345 contain what appears to be re-engineered firmware, and a suite of new functionality not previously available on the DNS legacy units.
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Is there anything special to do when reformatting for advanced format drives? I have 4 of theSamsung HD204UI 5400 rpm drives. I was on 1.04 but I would see pauses and stutters when streaming video from the drive. I am hoping this firmware fixes the issue, but wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything. When I configured the raid-5 array again there was no option for advanced format, so I guess its smart enough to detect that these drives are advanced format and adjust how it formats and offsets them based on that?
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When the new firmware was released, the only mention of AFD support was the one bullet item in the release notes in the beta forum. No mention was made as to any special procedure. My DNS-343s currently have non-AFD HDDs, so I can't speak to the effectiveness ofthe new update. If no special controls or prompts appear during HDD formatting in the web interface, then I would assume the AFD support is smart enough to detect the HDD type and format accordingly.
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The latest DNS-343 beta firmware resolved a number of instability issues inherent in some of the prior public releases. What instability issues are you referring to?
Not something specific.
The simple fact that it is labeled as BETA it means that d-link admits it is not properly tested and stable. The sad thing is that even non-beta released firmwares in the past were proven to have serious bugs.
But my deception right now is about the latest firmware that is not getting out of beta testing eventually...
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Can someone please advise when the 'beta' code will be released as 'production' code?
Surely it has reached any quality milestones that may have been targeted.
I keep checking our local (Australia) Dlink support site, but 1.04 is the latest.
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Really looking for a way to get rid of the invalid "fan can't rotate" message as this is one of the really important messages that the device should send if it really is having a critical problem...
Also, the beta change log forum topic lists the 1.05 build as a 2009 build instead of (probably) 2011.
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Really looking for a way to get rid of the invalid "fan can't rotate" message as this is one of the really important messages that the device should send if it really is having a critical problem...
Also, the beta change log forum topic lists the 1.05 build as a 2009 build instead of (probably) 2011.
Thanks for pointing out the date error in the release note history. . . I've updated the post to reflect the actual release date.
Firmware version 1.05b01 corrects the "Fan can't rotate" error message.
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Unicode Support...
Not sure if it's the firmware 1.05b01 or the Bittorrent app (v1.00) add-on, folders and files with name in Chinese (Unicode) being downloaded from another FTP server, the folder's or file's name becomes unreadable symbols.
In the FTP Server settings, have already set the "Client Language" to "Unicode".
Any idea if it's the Bittorrent add-on (v1.00) that is the culprit?
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D-Link published firmware version 1.05 as an official release: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=48343.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=48343.0)