M3800 USB Copy

[tony71]

I'm trying to copy from Picture shared folder to USB (1TB) drive formatted ext3.
The usb disc is mounted but when I start the copy the sistem start to beep and never stop (a long beep insttead of only 3 seconds). The copy doesn't proceed as you can see:
M3800:~# ls -la /raid/USBHDD/usb4/1
drwxr-xrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 29 13:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 14 Mar 31 14:58 ../
drwx---rwx 2 root root 16384 Mar 29 13:46 lost+found/

The web interface show me the message:
Copy from 'Picture' to '/raid/USBHDD/usb4/1'

After a while to stop the beep I restart the system.

I'm using firmware 1.00.04.2 (beta version).

Best Regards
Tony

[vicx]

I have just lodged a ticket with Thecus E-support. I can't mount Ext3 formatted drives via usb or esata on my 3200pro. NTFS partitions mount as they should. Maybe its a more than one partition problem but really the device should give much better feedback.

I think the automount software should just create a separate subfolder for each partitions on the drive you are trying to mount and just name the partition folder '_failed_to_mount' if it can't mount.

It should try to mount every partition on the drive.

[tony71]

If I understand well ours problems are very different: you can't mount ext3 formatted usb disk, I can't backup RAID data to usb disk but I'm sure it is correctly mounted.
To be able to mount ext3 usb disk you must have 1.00.04.2 BETA firmware.
Mounting for me works well (I have only one primary partition on usb disk) but backup data from raid to usb not work at all :-(

[Thecus - Yvon]

Dear Sir,

Please try on M3800/N3200PRO latest beta version V1.00.04.2 support the EXT3 for USB HDD, and following link for your reference:

http://www.thecus.com/Downloads/beta..._1.00.04.2.bin

M3800/N3200PRO beta firmware V1.00.04.2

1. This is just a beta, not official release.
2. Added EXT3 file system support for USB external HDD.
3. Added backup function that NAS admin could backup RAID data to USB external HDD.
Note. 1. NAS admin has to format the USB external HDD from other computer.
2. USB enclosure with EXT3 or FAT32 is allowed to backup the data.
4. Changed Samba version to 3.0.34 to fix the ADS joining issue in FW 1.00.03
and 1.00.04.1.
5. Updated the driver of ZyDAS ZD1211 wireless chip to ZD1211LnxDrv_2_22_0_0.
6. Fixed some playback issues. (For M3800 only)
7. File info:
2009/03/03 03:36 36,928,008 M3800_N3200PRO_FW_beta_1.00.04.2.bin
MD5(M3800_N3200PRO_FW_beta_1.00.04.2.bin)= 7454a68699cb6615c1b4dbdf378234b9

[tony71]

I found a problem in /opt/apache/htdocs/adm/usbcopy.php
There is code like:
shell_exec('echo "Buzzer 0" > /proc/thecus_io ');
shell_exec('sleep 2');
shell_exec('echo "Buzzer 1" > /proc/thecus_io ');
but if I exec this code in shell I obtain a indefinite long buzz...
Probably the correct version is:
shell_exec('echo "Buzzer 1" > /proc/thecus_io '); -> BUZZ ON
shell_exec('sleep 2');
shell_exec('echo "Buzzer 0" > /proc/thecus_io '); -> BUZZ OFF

The command that is executed is:
/opt/bin/rsync -ravt /raid/Picture /raid/USBHDD/usb4/1 2>&1 > /img/htdocs/adm/usbcopystatus
but I obtain the following error
-sh: cannot create /img/htdocs/adm/usbcopystatus: Read-only file system
And the output of mount command confirm the problem:
/dev/loop1 on /img type squashfs (ro)
img filesystem is read-only instead of rw

If I manually execute:
/opt/bin/rsync -ravt /raid/Picture /raid/USBHDD/usb4/1
it works.

Best Regards
Tony

[Ukeye]

I think this is a bug as the only way I could do the copy is via SSH and the above code.

[tony71]

With M3800 beta firmware V1.00.04.3 the situation seems better.
Now the only problem I can see is that if I try to copy a folder with used space bigger than
free space on USB device the copy don't start. But rsync copy only the difference between source and
destination folder so this type of control is wrong because the files copied can stay on the free space
of USB device. Again if I execute rsync command by hand it works well.
I think that the correct way of understanding if copy can be done is touse something like:
/opt/bin/rsync -ravtn --stats /raid/Movie /raid/USBHDD/usb4/1
where -n don't make the copy and --stats print statistics and one line contains
Total transferred file size:
and this is the correct value to match with free space

Best Regards
Tony