Re: AudioTron & NAS (specifically Linksys NSLU2)

Maybe the outages are so short that only my microwave and PCs get affected
(having to reset the clock and reboot). Maybe its a single circuit in my
house since the NAS is in the basement. Hmmmm I'll have to investigate.

Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cosner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] AudioTron & NAS (specifically Linksys NSLU2)


> Kevin,
>
> Your experience regarding power failures is exactly the opposite of mine.
> When we get momentary power interruptions (also frequent here), all the
> network devices except the NSLU2 reset automatically, and are fully
> available without manual intervention (except the AudioTron).  With my
> NSLU2, I have to go to the wiring closet and press the button on its face
> to
> make it present the drives to the network.  Linksys tech support has
> written
> me that this is the way the device is designed and it cannot be changed
> because the requirement to press the reset button is built into the
> hardware.
>
> I am running the current Firmware:
>  Date : 8/3/2004
>  Firmware Version : 2.3 Release 25
> My NSLU2 has required manual reset on all firmware releases.
>
> Have you found some method to cause your device to gracefully and
> completely
> recover from power interruptions, or does it just happen to work
> differently
> than mine?  The only difference I see between your configuration and mine
> is
> that I now have two 120G Maxtor external drives.
>
> Another problem I have had is that the NSLU2 claimed each of two previous
> new Maxtor 300 GB drives I had attached were unable to be written to and
> unable to delete existing files.  This happened after quite some time, and
> at random intervals for each 300 GB drive.  Reading existing information
> from those drives was OK, so with hours of file transfer, I was able to
> recover the music files to another drive.
>
> There are no Linksys diagnostic tools available to investigate the
> failure,
> and Linksys tech support said that the new Maxtor drives had definitely
> failed.  Maxtor is the preferred drive brand for Linksys, and the two
> companies have a cooperative marketing agreement for the NSLU2 and Maxtor
> drives, so it should not be a drive incompatibility problem.  Also, each
> drive worked for quite a while before spontaneously becoming read-only.
>
> Because of the file system required by the NSLU2, the drives could not be
> troubleshot by a separate PC.  As a consequence, I reformatted each drive
> under Win XP Pro, as NTFS, and the process reported both drives error-free
> and no problems with the drives.  Both drives have worked perfectly ever
> since, under Win XP.  I am anticipating the same inability to write to the
> 120 GB drives sometime in the future.
>
> It is my guess that the NSLU2's file system had become corrupted on the
> 300
> GB drives, making them APPEAR to be read-only.  This was not evident in
> the
> permissions or attributes presented to Windows.  Maybe someone familiar
> with
> the NSLU2's file system can shed some light on the phenomenon.
>
> -mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Wyman
> Sent: 2004-Dec-17 11:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AT] Audiotron & NAS (specifically Linksys NSLU2)
>
>
> -[Clip]-
>
> Power failures (we get regular small service interruptions during storms)
> have happened and the unit powered back up and presented the drive.
>
> -[clip]-
>
>
> Kevin
>