This failure lead me down the path of replacing the disk, as luck would have it I have a total of 8 of these disks shared across two storage environments, the first being the test lab, the second being my Buffalo Terastation Pro II. Over the weekend I had to remove a disk from one of my test systems due to an ongoing SMART issue with the drive, the drive itself is showing up OK with my BIOS but using a USB boot disk running SMART scanning software () I discovered an issue with the Spin Up Time Attribute that was causing me issues with NexentaStor (it was dropping the drive which is what caused me to do some in depth diags). I decided that it would be cool to try and get it to run something like FreeNAS so that I could ZFS, so I soldered up some sockets to a 3.5mm stereo jack and used my TTL-232R-3V3-AJ USB serial adaptor and using minicom, I could then get access to the uBoot boot loader.As some of you may have read previously I had a number of issues when I tried previously to upgrade my 2TB IX4 to make it into a 6TB IX4, whilst the disks were read and configured correctly, no matter what I tried I couldn’t configure any Data Protection on them. I discovered that it also had a 32MB NAND flash and an RS-232 header. From here it was easy enough to find that it was running a modified Debian (EMC Lifeline 2.1) under the hood.īefore I could let it just get back to the the lowly task of backing up all my data, I next did the obvious thing and took it to bits to see what was inside. I already new it was running a Marvell Kirkwood 88F6821 SoC and that it had 256MB of RAM. This turned out to be simple – username root, password soho.
I did actually use it for backups for a while before getting curious and finding out how to get a shell on the underlying OS.
Many other similar models cost more than that and they don’t even include the disks. I chose this particular model because it was cheap – only AU$289 from a store here in Melbourne.
A few months back I bought a 2TB iomega ix2-200 ostensibly to use for backups.
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