I just caught wind that Thecus have just released a new FW revision for the N5500/N7700/N8800 Series, its a BETA - http://www.thecus.com/Downloads/beta..._3.01.00.2.bin
This 'may/maynot' delete as appropriate have fixed the non responsiveness experienced by many users when upgrading, I don't have a unit to test on right now so cannot tell. Anybody daring enough to try it?
1. This is just a beta, not official release.
2. Upgrade Netatalk to 2.0.5 for MAC AFP protocol.
3. Link Aggregation supports the following modes.
- mode=1 active-backup
- mode=2 balance-xor
- mode=4 802.3ad
- mode=5 balance-tlb
- mode=6 balance-alb
4. Added Intel 82576GB GbE NIC support
5. Added Tehuti ENW-9800 10GbE NIC support. (For N7700PRO and N8800PRO
only)
6. Fixed the iSCSI target disconnecting issue while adding or making
changes to existing iSCSI target.
7. Added NTLM V2 support in ADS mode.
8. Fixed the issue that snapshot backup is not readable while admin
password changed.
9. Upgraded Intel GbE NIC driver to e1000e 1.1.2 for better performance.
10. Fixed the issue that Dual DOM wrongfully repair itself after file
system check done and rebooted.
11. Fixed the HDD spin down issue.
12. Limited stripe size to minimum 32KB while creating RAID.
13. Fixed the issue that workgroup name cannot be changed while not
joining AD.
14. Upgraded Samba to version 3.4.3 to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
Special thanks to Falk John
Also, Windows 7 will be able to login share folder by AD account.
15. Fixed the vulnerability issue reported by Falk John.
(Authentication bypass in /adm/login.php)
16. Fixed the issue that Nsync could not backup data to legacy FTP
server.
17. Fixed the issue that "size on disk" is too big compared with "size"
in Windows File Manager.