So I'm working on the UPS addition and forgot I use that USB port for my printer sharing. So time to do some reading on USB hubs and the Black Armor NAS 110. The printer is important and the UPS is important. I wonder if I can mix my peanut butter and chocolate.
Even stranger, there is a USB port on the front of the box but that is special purposed for just USB Memory backups only.
So I have several paths here to check.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Black Armor: A ToDo List - UPS and DLNA
I have two new quick projects that I need for my Black Armor NAS 110 in the immediate future.
First I need the UPS functionality for this device as I'm taking power hits at my residence and my old UPS' are just way too old and not working to keep the NAS running after a power blip. I bought an APC Back-UPS ES BE550G 550 VA 330 Watts at CostCo with one of their specials. The Black Armor NAS documentation said it only works with APC UPS so I thought I was okay but with further reading in the forums they say results vary with APC devices. So time to see if my new APC UPS will work with the built-in software or if the software needs improvements. So I hope to have a smart UPS running but just the dumb UPS functionality without a shutdown mode will have to do if I cannot get it working. The smart UPS depends on apcupsd 3.12.2 according to a post.
$ /usr/sbin/apcupsd --version
apcupsd 3.12.2 (18 January 2006) redhat
Next on the list is to figure out how functional the streaming media works on the device. This will hopefully be more straight forward than the UPS. Family time will be vastly improved if I can get the DVD collection running off this device. DLNA is an interesting subject and my BlueRay player hooked to my TV may be able to play movies off the NAS. That would be optimal.
First I need the UPS functionality for this device as I'm taking power hits at my residence and my old UPS' are just way too old and not working to keep the NAS running after a power blip. I bought an APC Back-UPS ES BE550G 550 VA 330 Watts at CostCo with one of their specials. The Black Armor NAS documentation said it only works with APC UPS so I thought I was okay but with further reading in the forums they say results vary with APC devices. So time to see if my new APC UPS will work with the built-in software or if the software needs improvements. So I hope to have a smart UPS running but just the dumb UPS functionality without a shutdown mode will have to do if I cannot get it working. The smart UPS depends on apcupsd 3.12.2 according to a post.
$ /usr/sbin/apcupsd --version
apcupsd 3.12.2 (18 January 2006) redhat
Next on the list is to figure out how functional the streaming media works on the device. This will hopefully be more straight forward than the UPS. Family time will be vastly improved if I can get the DVD collection running off this device. DLNA is an interesting subject and my BlueRay player hooked to my TV may be able to play movies off the NAS. That would be optimal.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Black Armor NAS Information
Here is the beginning of a dump of information on the Black Armor device from the Linux kernel and environment. From this I learned the processor type and features. I also got some pointers to cross-compiler options used. These will all be important later.
$ uname -a
Linux NAS3 2.6.22.18 #1 Thu Aug 26 12:26:10 CST 2010 v0.0.8 armv5tejl unknown
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 794.62
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0x131
CPU revision : 1
Cache type : write-back
Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown : format C
Cache format : Harvard
I size : 16384
I assoc : 4
I line length : 32
I sets : 128
D size : 16384
D assoc : 4
D line length : 32
D sets : 128
Hardware : Feroceon-KW
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
$ cat kmsg
<5>Linux version 2.6.22.18 (root@jasonDev.localdomain) (gcc version 4.2.1) #1 Thu Aug 26 12:26:10 CST 2010 v0.0.8
<4>CPU: ARM926EJ-S [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
<4>Machine: Feroceon-KW
<4> Marvell Development Board (LSP Version KW_LSP_4.2.7_patch21_with_rx_desc_tuned)-- MONO Soc: 88F6192 A1 LE
$ dmesg
... way too much stuff ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Rsync on Black Armor NAS 110
I figured out something simple but neat on the Black Armor NAS 110 (BA-NAS110) device. It has rsync a powerful file-system replication tool from UNIX.
Caveats are that in order to do this you must have root on the device and a ssh connection with the command line. I'll write a friendly doc on how to get 'root' later. (Just search for Hajo Noerenberg's work on the subject sans the friendly write up if you want to do it now.)
So, the BA-NAS110 is capable of using rsync from the command line to replicate its data to another NAS or Linux system if you have root on the system. Getting it setup was simple enough but knowing that the rsync daemon and client were on the systems was the trick.
You have to create a rsyncd.conf file since there isn't one pre-built. Syntax is common to the typical rsync 3.0.4 version.
Hosting system
$ id
(root)
$ cat /root/rsyncd.conf
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
[rsyncftp]
path = /shares/Public
comment = rsyncftp
$ rsync --daemon --config=/root/rsyncd.conf
Client system (could be another BA-NAS110 or Linux)
$ id
(root)
$ rsync --progress --stats -v -t -r rsync://admin@/rsyncftp/* /shares/Public
... watch the good times roll ...
Note: Add the "-n" option to rsync on the client side for the initial test connection to put it in test mode without data copy. Remove "-n" when you actually want to copy data.
The transfer speed between two BA-NAS110 devices across a dedicated switch is about 6-8MB/s. I've read some comments about performance on these devices being dogs and that there tweaks that might help.
I don't have my toolchain setup for compiling native apps yet but getting all my data copied out of my old device to my new one was a pretty important step to playing around with the older one. So I figured someone else might benefit from this bit of lore.
Caveats are that in order to do this you must have root on the device and a ssh connection with the command line. I'll write a friendly doc on how to get 'root' later. (Just search for Hajo Noerenberg's work on the subject sans the friendly write up if you want to do it now.)
So, the BA-NAS110 is capable of using rsync from the command line to replicate its data to another NAS or Linux system if you have root on the system. Getting it setup was simple enough but knowing that the rsync daemon and client were on the systems was the trick.
You have to create a rsyncd.conf file since there isn't one pre-built. Syntax is common to the typical rsync 3.0.4 version.
Hosting system
$ id
(root)
$ cat /root/rsyncd.conf
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
[rsyncftp]
path = /shares/Public
comment = rsyncftp
$ rsync --daemon --config=/root/rsyncd.conf
Client system (could be another BA-NAS110 or Linux)
$ id
(root)
$ rsync --progress --stats -v -t -r rsync://admin@
... watch the good times roll ...
Note: Add the "-n" option to rsync on the client side for the initial test connection to put it in test mode without data copy. Remove "-n" when you actually want to copy data.
The transfer speed between two BA-NAS110 devices across a dedicated switch is about 6-8MB/s. I've read some comments about performance on these devices being dogs and that there tweaks that might help.
I don't have my toolchain setup for compiling native apps yet but getting all my data copied out of my old device to my new one was a pretty important step to playing around with the older one. So I figured someone else might benefit from this bit of lore.
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