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Post by sausage on Jan 23, 2011 21:05:56 GMT 7
OK long sad tale of woe: Got this thecus 5200BR off Ebay and all seemed well, tested with some JBOD disks while waiting for my large ones to turn up.
I upgraded to latest v2 bios. Great all went well.
It didnt like the 1.5TB WD EARS due to the 4k, during this time I upgraded to the 3.04.5 beta which looked nice, but I could NOT connect to it except with the thecus setup wizard!! Grrr.
Gave up and downgraded to v2.00.15 using the factorytest.sh. that went well, but still no joy with the speed of the WD drives (yes there may be a work around now I read but not at the time).
Then all of a sudden I reboot it and get no ip address and cant access the box it says WAN ip N/A whatever port its plugged into.
I cant make it do a hardware reset all I get during boot up is the option of reset enabled or disabled and nether makes any difference. there no asking for password etc as I have read elsewhere that it should ask for so i cant seem to reset it that way.
I have tried flashing bios using USB but it seems to just ignore it and boots up as before. So I have no IP, no reset option, which sounds like the DOM is corrupted from reading up.
How do i go about getting the DOM reflashed and how much will it cost me? Or else tell me how to get it working some other way.
Cheers
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Post by aphasia on Feb 13, 2011 22:19:16 GMT 7
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Post by sausage on Feb 19, 2011 22:27:59 GMT 7
OK I have FINALLY managed to hook the DOM up to my Windows XP PC and can see all the little drives on it using an EXT2 /3 driver. Items used 2 x 44 pin pin headers, 1 x laptop ide cable with female ends, 1 x 2.5 - 3.5 IDE converter. Hooking it up wrong = HOT DOM in seconds. It survived several wrong insertions, while i got my head around the reversed pins. You have been warned...
On the PC all are showing as EXT2 except one which shows as Linux and is raw unreadable. is that normal? So I can see the files on all the drives except the Linux one.
Now the question becomes ... can I extract .bin files and copy the individual files onto the DOM on my PC?
Cheers
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Post by aphasia on Feb 21, 2011 4:41:44 GMT 7
don't worry about extracting the files from your old DOM
either;
copy the image from the link in my last post (N5200PRO_FW2.00.14_DOM_Image) onto your existing DOM
or (better option)
buy a new DOM (from my links above or google-fu) and copy the image onto that.
if you are worried about your RAID info, it's still intact on the hard drives. the unit (once re-flashed) will behave like it's been reset to defaults.
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Post by sausage on Feb 22, 2011 1:37:55 GMT 7
Ok thanks, but that doesnt answer my questions...
I have several little drives visible and one is not on my XP PC.
Copy the .bin to where? I figured i needed to extract the .bin and copy files as the .bin is like an image? You seem to suggest I just copy the .bin over...
Im looking at it under Windows XP remember.
Cheers
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Post by aphasia on Feb 24, 2011 9:08:18 GMT 7
yeah as far as i know you won't be able to reflash the DOM on windows machine. couple ways around this; 1. grab a copy of VMware or VirtualBox (free). setup virtual machine and install linux distro (ubuntu et all). 2. download linux live cd (again probably ubuntu the easiest). follow instruction from 'futterknecht' website (from 'N5200PRO_FW2.00.14_DOM_Image' link) www.futterknecht.at/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=39&Itemid=56VM takes a little longer to setup but once running you can switch between windows and linux very easily. booting linux live cd, no setup but it means you've gotta reboot pc every time you access to linux box. first suggestion is more elegant and allows you play with linux whenever you want from windows desktop. note i've never reflashed a DOM before. i tried but lacked to proper 44pin adaptor (i had a faulty n5200 where i thought the DOM was the problem, later found out it was the PSU). anyway i've completed all the steps minus the reflash. as you've already sorted the correct cabling / adaptor, this process should be relatively easy. i haven't used VirtualBox, but VM is very easy to setup and run. i've keep a couple of VM's on my machine (windows xp & ubuntu). haven't used my ubuntu VM in a while. if i need access to linux i just install VMware and load the ubuntu VM file and off i go. |
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Post by sausage on Mar 3, 2011 22:05:13 GMT 7
OK I give up. Linux does my frickin head in...
Under VMWare as a virtual machine Ubuntu cant see any other drives except the DVD so it cant see the DOM.
I tried installing it to a spare hard drive and it just sits there for hours during hardware detection, but installed fine on same PC as a virtual machine above!
Booted as an ISO it see the drives all lovely and fine, ...but I cant for the life of me make it change drive in command line or any other way make it copy the image onto the DOM. I get no such directory, permission denied or some such nuts all the time.
My HDA file is on a usb stick (/dev/sdb)
My DOM is /dev/sda
dd if=thecus_hda.dd of=/dev/sda does not work
dd if=/dev/sdb/thecus_hda.dd of=/dev/sda does not work
No such file or directory ....
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Post by sausage on Mar 4, 2011 22:35:09 GMT 7
Progress:
No luck with ubuntu so now using knoppix.
sudo gparted help show the /dev numbers etc and refresh the drives to know whats going on and if the copy has worked or not.
sudo command makes no difference to dd command...
dd if=/media/sdb1/thecus_hda.dd of=/dev/sde formats the 64mb dom into the little drives but copies nothing obvious over....
Tried this on a usb stick and same result, drive partitioned into the small drives but nothing in them when i look except the 1st drive has 256kb of boot data.
Re downloaded the thecus_hda file and same result.
Just tried the USB stick and it boots with it, but stops part way into bootup saying no such file or directory for several lines.....
DOM gets further but stops at Starting WEB Server on front panel. Just after activating ethernet on screen it looks like.
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Post by peterfu on Mar 5, 2011 13:09:10 GMT 7
Usually it works, however I have never done it myself but have many positive responses to the procedure. Why don't you buy a new programmed DOM, that may be easier - if you are located in Europe the check here: shop.thecus-eu.com/index.php?cPath=57_37 If not in Europe then contac<t Thecus support for a hint where to purchase this. br Peter |
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Post by sausage on Mar 8, 2011 23:16:29 GMT 7
Woohoo! Finally got this pig working again. Bought a PQI 512MB DOM of Ebay for £8 delivered and flashed that as before, worked 1st time.
Reset the Thecus to defaults and can now log in to it, .... interface was in German but changed to english no problem.
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Post by jelina on Jul 16, 2011 17:59:29 GMT 7
I cant make it do a hardware reset all I get during boot up is the option of reset enabled or disabled and nether makes any difference. there no asking for password etc as I have read elsewhere that it should ask for so i cant seem to reset it that way. I tried installing it to a spare hard drive and it just sits there for hours during hardware detection, but installed fine on same PC as a virtual machine above!
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