I’d given up on getting DD-WRT flashed on this router. With the help of one of my colleagues at work we were able to get DD-WRT flashed! Omar Davis you rock! What got it to Flash Success came with these work arounds: 1. Disable Windows firewall on the command line: netsh firewall set opmode disable 2. Using the ASUS firmware update tool you’ll have to place the .trx file on the root of the C: drive. ...

So someone sent me the link to the tax amnesty website and mostly out of curiosity I checked my drivers licence. I have no outstanding tickets on there so why should I worry? I am an upstanding citizen of Jamaica who believes in doing the responsible thing of going to court and pleading guilty with explanation and hoping the judge will fine me less than the amount that is on the ticket. Imagine my shock and utter dismay when I looked at the list and saw every ticket I have ever gotten on there! OMG! The government is evil! (This you already know, right?) ...

I grabbed this card from my local computer shop without doing any research. I was very excited and eager to get my home NAS up and running. I was soon disappointed after installing and configuring one hard drive. I was using freeNas then and the write speeds where terribly slow. This was one of the main reasons why I started looking for another NAS solution other than freeNAS. When I migrated to OpenMediaVault this card seemed to have much better Linux support. The I/O speeds were very decent and in spite of this this card always seemed unstable and even though I kept having unstable behavior with hard drives I never made the connection that this card was the root cause. If I had any clue that this was the case I perhaps would not have been so eager with my move to RAID and would have delayed my migration until after I had found a reliable replacement. Alas, you lose data to learn and I lost over 500GB worth of movies and tv shows. ...

Check raid status cat /proc/mdstat or watch cat /proc/mdstat Scan configuration mdadm --detail --scan To Remove a disk from the Array, you’ll have to fail then remove the drive. mdadm --fail /dev/mdX /dev/sdX mdadm --remove /dev/mdX /dev/sdX To add a disk to the array: mdadm --add /dev/mdX /dev/sdX Turn bitmap on mdadm --grow --bitmap=internal /dev/mdX Turn off bitmap mdadm --grow --bitmap=none /dev/mdX Speed up recovery echo 50000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min Resources ...

I kept getting this strange error from my NAS. A google search led me to a solution on OMV forums. This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on oracle A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md/oracle:storage1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md127 : active raid5 sdb[0] sda[3] sdc[1] 976770048 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] ...

Apt is broken on my omv box with this error. I am still trying to figure this one out. CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Mon Dec 3 04:00:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT SLEEP: 3420, Mon Dec 3 04:57:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: openmediavault-transmissionbt : Depends: transmission-cli (>= 2.42) but it is not installed transmission-daemon : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2-1) but it is not installed Depends: libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.16-stable) but it is not installed Depends: libminiupnpc5 but it is not installable Depends: libnatpmp1 but it is not installable Depends: transmission-common (= 2.71-1) but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

I have a failed (failing) hard drive on my raid5 array. I have documented the steps needed to replace the failed disk with a new disk. Disk is most likely ok but it is showing read errors. Better be safe than sorry! View Array Status cat /proc/mdstat Remove Failed Disk mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --remove /dev/sda Shutdown and replace disk with new one shutdown -h now ...

I wanted a reliable home media server and so far the process to get this up and running has been very fun and rewarding. This is where I store my movies, tv shows and music. I’m a big fan of XBMC and I wanted to set up sharing the xbmc database through mysql to all my clients. I also wanted to be able to stream my music to multiple clients. Initially I used daap but I have since moved on to SubSonic. ...

I keep forgetting how to do this one… so I wrote it down. Updating TimeZone: Remove current timezone (delete symbolic link): rm /var/db/timezone/localtime Create Symbolic link for Jamaica TimeZone ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Jamaica /var/db/timezone/localtime

Subsonic to the world!! After a little searching I found a SubSonic AddOn that works with XBMC Frodo. I am running the nightly builds for Windows and ATV2. As per this forum post: I find XBMC to be the best experience on a Mac or PC for interacting with my remote Subsonic server. I wanted to try it with the pre-Alpha builds of XBMC Frodo to take advantage of the new audio engine. The Subsonic script failed and the guy who wrote it (t0mm0) seems to have disappeared. I debugged and corrected it (very easy) and for those of you who are interested here’s a link to the new files: ...