[LUAU] Anyone use a Linksys NSLU2? USB hard disk drives are FOSS friendly?

[Brian Chee]

The NLSU2 is a totally hackable box and is pretty nice....just keep firmly
in mind that it's USB so slow. The Netgear SC101 is totally windoze ONLY
since it's a hacked up Zetera HBA driver and while a cool concept, it
keeps dropping off the network on me.

Also, the Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Network SLUG) has a huge embedded fan
base with some folks using them as cheaper embedded web servers, USB
servers, etc...

You might want to get instead go for some of the newer boxes that are NFS
mountable (also SMB) and web managed, AND are SATA based for speed. So far
nothing is catching my eye, and I'm considering just building an embedded
Linux box for NFS, and perhaps some other stuff...the platform that's
catching my eye for now is the Medallion by Techsol.ca that I used for the
PODS project....general purpose StrongARM SA1110 system...that uses VERY
little power so perhaps with 2.5" drives I could make it all battery
powered. The only hassle is that toolchain and cross compiling can be a
royal hassle if you don't do it all the time.

/brian chee


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Brian J.S. Chee, CNE/CNI
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Julian Yap wrote:

> Things are starting to get unwieldy and the amount of HD storage
> required for files which can be offloaded (namely music, photos) has
> increased to the point where I need to consider other storage options.
> Basically I want a cheap NAS (and that cheap to run, so not a PC).
>
> Anyone use a Linksys NSLU2?  Any good?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
>
> Recommend any of the alternative firmwares on this site over any of the
> others?
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
>
> I'm thinking of getting one of these and a 'Sunday paper brochure
> insert' USB hard disk drive.
>
> Another question is, do USB hard disk drives require any Windows/Mac
> software to be operational?  In other words, are they all pretty much
> Free Software OS friendly?
>
> ~ Julian
>
>
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