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<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recently
received a Maxtor MaxAttach 3000 that was trashed. The previous owner was going
to toss it out, but gave it to me instead. This unit is has a pair of 80
Gig drives (73 Gigs) that (like most NAS's) can be set as single volumes,
simple JBOD for 143 Gigs or mirrored for a single 73 Gig
volumn.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Turns out it runs FreeBSD.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>uname -mrs shows:
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>FreeBSD
2.05.3075.17 i386</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was able (after
about 15 hours of research, reading, and turning up exactly one thread on the
unit, trial and error) to get the drives wiped, and functional. The unit was
down past 0% free (-4%, IIRC) which was part of the difficulty in booting it, as
nothing could be set or reset, and the system had shown some corruption (User
accounts were named in kanji and high-ANSI chars)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>It also has
some limits that I thought someone may be able to tell me how to work
around.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) One of the web
interface management pages requires an old version of Java (1.42 or older) and
will not run on IE7. I'm using an old Win2000 box with IE6 and MS-Java to change
drive shares and security...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Appears to have a
file size limit, I was going to use this to store DVD .iso images, but it cannot
handle 7 Gig images. I have not tried to see if the limit is 2 Gig, but I
suspect that's it. I'm not sure if this is SAMBA related, or early FreeBSD
related.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>fdisk shows 3
partitions (sysid 90 - unknown, and two sysid 165 - FreeBSD), on each of the
drives (I would assume so that you can swap drives, or that if the first fails,
it can rebuild the OS/swap partitions from the second.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) The upgrade for
the box is an 11 Meg .pkg file. I suspect that it's possible to fix issues, and
repackage so that others with these units could install the fixes using the
built-in upgrade webpage...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>What's the
possibility to load something more modern on this, rather than patching an older
OS?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's some hw info
from the box (it does support telnet - w00t!)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2># dmesg | grep
CPU<BR>CPU: Pentium/P55C (quarter-micron) (267.27-MHz 586-class
CPU)<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2># dmesg | grep
memory<BR>real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)<BR>avail memory = 29859840
(29160K bytes)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2># dmesg | grep
drive<BR>cvd0-5: Concatenated disk drivers<BR>supported drive: oemid=0x21,
vendor=<Maxtor 98196H8><BR>supported drive: oemid=0x21, vendor=<Maxtor
98196H8></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Probing for devices
on PCI bus 0:<BR>chip0: <Intel 82439TX System Controller (MTXC)> rev 0x01
on pci0.0.0<BR>chip1: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x02 on
pci0.7.0<BR>ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on
pci0.7.1<BR>chip2: <Intel 82371AB USB host controller> rev 0x01 int d irq
0 on pci0.7.2<BR>chip3: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller!> rev
0x02 on pci0.7.3<BR>fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev
0x08 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160363621-10022008><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, basically an old
Pentium TX-chipset Mobo with two hard drives on two channels, running with 32
Megs of memory. The board itself can use upto 128 Megs (am reading that it will
take a 256 Meg SODIMM, but only show 128 Megs).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark Hutchinson</FONT></DIV>
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