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[bigwebb83]

I currently have a 2x2tb RAID1 setup.  If I were to install a 2tb usb drive with this alternative firmware, could I do a mix of RAID1 and JBOD?  What I mean is, can I keep my current RAID1 setup with the two existing drives and just add an additional usb drive and have it show as a second drive for more space as opposed to being in the RAID setup?

[jamieburchell]

You can achieve that without changing your firmware. Lookup Fonz Fun Plug.

[bigwebb83]

I have ffp installed...

[bigwebb83]

What do I need to do to enable the use of an external usb drive?  And will it perform as I described in my previous post?

On a side note, I'm worried that I may have bricked my dns-323.  I followed the instructions for trying alt-f firmware and when i went to execute alt-f.sh (remotely from work) the telnet session froze and then booted me and I haven't been able to access the web interface or the ftp server for about 20 minutes now.

[krenkey]

What do I need to do to enable the use of an external usb drive?  And will it perform as I described in my previous post?

On a side note, I'm worried that I may have bricked my dns-323.  I followed the instructions for trying alt-f firmware and when i went to execute alt-f.sh (remotely from work) the telnet session froze and then booted me and I haven't been able to access the web interface or the ftp server for about 20 minutes now.

It might be doing a fsck if you see a heartbeat blue power light flashing its doing a fsck if you can ping it but cant access the box just wait

[bigwebb83]

Ok so I've got it back working again.  So how can I use the external drive with FFP?

[krenkey]

Just plug the thing in and make a samba share done

[brotherman38]

Will using the Alt-F, increase the SAMBA, and FTP transfer speed, I'm currently getting 8 Kbits with SAMBA, and 15 Kbits with FTP on a GBit network.

[Giammi_1963]

Hi to everybody, thanks a lot for support our device, d-link should not stop to support our device.
Just a question, if I install this alternative firmware, I'll lost all my data ? I read that it support an USB hard drive, but I may only make a back-up, no incremental or other ?
Sorry for my english
Regards
Gianni

...nobody can help me ?

[krenkey]

I did not loose any data but remember any data that isnt backed up is considered data that you dont want<<<<<there are always risks to installing other firmwares read the faq's and understand the risks

[Giammi_1963]

I did not loose any data but remember any data that isnt backed up is considered data that you dont want<<<<<there are always risks to installing other firmwares read the faq's and understand the risks

Thanks a lot Krenkey, obviusly I already backupped my data in 2 different drive (PC + external USB)+NAS in mirroring means enogh security (...never said never...); my question was only because restore 1 tera of data need lot of time, so my second question is do you suggest to move to this custom firmware (improving transfer speed, direct back-up to drive USB, anything else )  ?
Thanks again
Gianni

[bigwebb83]

Just plug the thing in and make a samba share done

How do I do that?  I don't see anything about samba in the web interface and I don't just intuitively know how to do it through telnet

[bigwebb83]

Ok I have found a link on the dns-323 wiki page on how to do this.  Although its not nearly as simple as you made it sound, I think I should be able to manage.  My question is, how will this show up on a win 7 pc?  In other words how will I access it?  I'm not familiar with samba.  Is there a special client?  Or will it just be a separate volume under my current mapped drive?

Also, my intent is to probably get a 3tb usb drive and use it for storage of bd ISO files so I can rip my collection to a network storage and play it back over something like the netgear neotv 550.  Will the neo tv be able to see this drive as well?  Thanks in advance

[jamieburchell]

For further details on using the USB port of the NAS to attach a hard drive, see the link below. The article assumes you are running Fonz Fun Plug (ffp).

You can also format your attached drives as EXT2 or 3 if you want (i.e. not just FAT32/NTFS).

http://www.horto.ca/?p=27

[krenkey]

Dunno it took me literally 30 seconds to plug in drive use the alt-f webpage and create a samba share and then open my network places and there is the samba share ready to go couldnt get easier than that.