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[tfiveash]

I upgraded to firmware 1.03 and tried the auto power after power off by pulling the plug. When I plugged it back in the unit did not restart. Has anyone got this to work?  Has any of the d-link moderators addressed this issue? All they have to do is pull the plug and then replug it back in the wall.  I wish they would tell us how they got it to work.

Terry

[JoeSchmuck]

Read the Firmware 1.03 thread at the top, page 2 or 3.  Answer is there, just not the right place for it so you can blame me.

-Joe

[D-Link Multimedia]

Yes, to address this, there is some miscommunication regarding the firmware. The release notes should have stated the same as the DNS-323 which is that this function is only available on the C1 hardware. The web dev description will be updated tomorrow. While the function is in the firmware it is not supported in A1 or B1 hardware.

[tfiveash]

Any chance of getting a hardware version C1 logic board?

Terry

[Ryder]

Any chance of getting a hardware version C1 logic board?

Terry

@ D-L M, I'll second that thought too, I'd love to have that feature working. I bought, what I thought at the time, was the newest revision of the 321. And after having some fatal hardware problems with the one I bought in May/June of 2009, I returned it to Newegg. They sent me out a "new" (refurbed) unit in Oct of 2009, and I still didn't get a rev C1 unit!

And I hear on the forum that others have bought their unit in the last week or two and they are still getting rev A1 or A2. How do we go about getting a rev C1 unit, especially through online ordering? Is there any way that Dlink can force the retailers to send back their remaining stock of older hardware so they could be updated to the latest boards, and then we'd all have the feature that some of us are dying to have?     I'd buy another 321 today if I could be guaranteed that I would get a rev C1 of the unit! 

Is there ANY chance that this can be fixed in a Rev A1 or A2 unit, later on, maybe in firmware 1.04?

Ryder

[JoeSchmuck]

I got my NAS from NewEgg and it's a Rev A2, but the date stamp inside the case is March 2009 (pull the drives and look inside the top of the case).  This was not old stock from NewEgg but maybe it was refurbished at D-Link and sent out as new stock (pure speculation).  I just can't imagine the boards have been through two revisions since March 2009.  Yea, I'm irritated by the fact I got a new unit that has an old board in it.  I'm curious if the old revisions is only coming from NewEgg.

Ryder, I'd like to know the date stamp on your NAS.  Also, when you recieved it could you tell it was refurbished vice the new one you previously had?  I'm curious if I was sent a refurb unit.  I can say it looked very original.

It would also be nice to know the differences between the revs like, faster CPU, more RAM, faster RAM, better power filtering, more robust connectors, etc...

And as for support for this feature with C1 hardware, GRJ got it right but ECF stated the revisions didn't matter in the 1.03 realeased thread.

-Joe

[gunrunnerjohn]

And as for support for this feature with C1 hardware, GRJ got it right but ECF stated the revisions didn't matter in the 1.03 realeased thread.

I guess you can't believe everything you hear.

[tfiveash]

I have a version A2 and following some other posts on this forum I pulled the plug out of the back of the unit and then plugged it back in and to my surprise it fired right back up.  This tells me as spectulated by others that it is the slow degrading of the power from the brick that causes it to shut off without restart.

Therefore, I am thinking that it is the power supply circuit on the board. If you unplug it the 5 and 12 volts starts draining and before it gets low enough to shut down the unit it resets a restrart flag in the flash memory.  I think that D-link reworked the power supply to not let the power drain off but when the plug was pulled from the wall it shut off the power to the unit immediately.  What we need is for one of you electonics experts out there to figure how to shutdown the power quick enough so where the unit thinks that the power cord was pulled out of the back of the unit.


From what you guys are saying if we could get a version C1 if something happened to it the refurb unit that we get could be one of the other versions and thus no restart. Come on D-Link help us out.

Terry

[D-Link Multimedia]

The DNS-321 was not advertised with Auto Power Recovery so in essence you have not lost anything nor gained anything. It is not the power supply limiting the function, it is the DNS-321.

C1 is not MP'd yet so you will not find any in the market.

[JoeSchmuck]

The DNS-321 was not advertised with Auto Power Recovery so in essence you have not lost anything nor gained anything. It is not the power supply limiting the function, it is the DNS-321.

  I agree, it's not an advertised feature so we can't really blame D-Link if the feature works or not.  Lets see a show of hands from those who purchased this device knowing it came with this feature?  I doubt there are many but probably a few that tried to do thier research before buying a NAS.  We need to choose our fights and this is not one anyone can win except D-Link.

  A fight worth choosing is the one about formatting a drive and getting Error 112.  That needs to be identified and solved.  I myself don't have that problem but I see it poping up more frequently.

-Joe

[D-Link Multimedia]

Going to lock this thread for now since the final verdict is out. If you have other topics to discuss use those threads or create a new one.