Re: LinkSys NSS4000 NAS w/ RM7000+PMON2000

On 5/13/07, Toru Nishimura <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I've been away from MIPS camp for long time since I have
> no good modern MIPS HW at hand.  I found that one of LinkSys
> NAS product named NSS4000 is a very good candidate to
> port NetBSD.  PLS check out http://www.tmk.com/blog/?p=8
> It has 600MHz RM7035C and a variety of modern PCI
> peripherals.  The most interesting aspect is that it has
> PMON2000 bootloader and HW provides serial console connector
> to control.  I guess it's a kind of rare NAS box which equips L2
> cache inside.  I hope the product would gain successful share
> and would be replaced with bettter processor like MSP8150
> (re-badged RM9150) in some future.

Hmm, nice machine. Dual gigabit ethernet controllers and 4 disks...

Do you know if you can netboot it similar to the NSLU2? I was going to
try to find an NSLU2 to play with, but I'm really not smart enough to
do hardware hacking.

This thing could make a really nice box. It's still a little pricey though.

Andy