I have a dev model which I received in June 2009.  It ran 24x7 (with the exception of one week during which it was moved to a new location 2,500 miles away) until today.

The PSU died.  I wired up a 5V 2.4A  power supply from a USB hub I had lying around, it's working fine again. I've been tarring (with bzip2) 30GB of data on it for the last 8 hours or so; it's about as loaded as it will get and is going strong. The wall wart is only slightly warm to the touch.


I guess, from reading other posts, that my PSU lasted about a year longer than it should have

-Matt

PS:  The silver box next to the drobo is a Neoware thin client (800MHz Via) running pfsense, the best OSS firewall ever.

downloaded and installed your rc8 and drobo seems fine now.  thanks!

Would  you mind posting or otherwise delivering the config that you used to build this kernel?  I previously posted about my ext3 formatted drobo not mounting; i since have discovered that it mounts fine if formatted as fat32 (yuk).  I tried building a 2.6.30-rc6 from source with a slightly modified kirkwood_defconfig but after inserting it into sheevaplug-installer-alpha-6 (from whence i obtained your build) it would not mount the root fs during the install; not sure why but i'd like to see what is different about this one.

Thanks,


EDIT:   NM, i guess i should have looked at your link to the kernel and modules in the original post. 

I'm having problems with my Drobo on this release; it works perfectly on my 8.04LTS desktop and on the factory kernel that shipped w/ my plug

root@divaplug:/home/matt# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/drobo1
mount: you must specify the filesystem type


So I try:
root@divaplug:/home/matt# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/drobo1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so


dmesg | tail returns:

sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem on dev sdb1.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem on dev sdb1.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1.



anyway --

It worked brilliantly for me.  I stumbled across it when i was looking for the files I needed to flash my plug back to the factory image (one file on my cd wouldn't untar) and I am glad I did... only problem so far is that my drobo won't mount (worked fine on the factory image) but I am trying formatting on the plug to see what happens.  edit:  it now mounts on the plug but not on my desktop.  the desktop sees the device but not the partition (even though I didn't create the partition on the plug, I just used mkfs.ext3 to format it)

anyway..

What's amazing to me (and maybe nobody else) is that i'm running windows in VMWare workstation on my Ubuntu desktop and so I ran the script in Ubuntu and puTTY in windows and both were able to access the plug simultaneously.

-m

FYI you were exactly right; I just pulled linux-2.6.30-rc1.tar.bz2, untarred it, configged and turned on a couple extra filesystems and nfs server and now it's compiling.  Hopefully it will boot.  Thanks for the help; the more I do this the easier it gets.

-M

edit:  out of curiosity, is the kirkwood_defconfig the same or mostly the same as the config for the kernel that ships with the sheevaplug?

I'll just try another kernel; I don't really care what it is as long as it has the support I need.

Thanks,

Matt

Ok, so I have gotten as far as making a new config file with what I think are the necessary changes... so I make config and then make and I get this:


from what I gather, I am missing something in my path or in /etc/environment but i am not sure what.

edit:  i should mention that i am compiling on the sheevaplug and that i have installed build-essentials and libncurses5-dev per http://www.computingplugs.com/index.php/Building_a_custom_kernel

I am following directions to compile kernel using the supplied sources.  i need support for nfs-kernel-server.  I intend to modify the mv88f6281_defconfig, just wanting to know which NFS options I need to turn on.  Here is the default:


My gut says that I need to add a line CONFIG_NFSD=y ?     I'm not terribily new to Linux but I have only compiled a kernel once before and it was a long time ago. 

Thanks,

Matt