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Thread: Firmware v1.2.3.0

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    Firmware v1.2.3.0

    USE THIS FIRMWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
    Firmware for the WL-HDD can be found here:

    http://www.asus.com.tw/support/downl...en.zip~zaqwedc

    http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wire...DD_1230_en.zip
    ftp://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/wirel...DD_1230_en.zip
    ftp://www.asus.it/pub/ASUS/wireless/...DD_1230_en.zip
    http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireles...DD_1230_en.zip
    http://www.asuscom.de/pub/ASUS/wirel...DD_1230_en.zip
    http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/wire...DD_1230_en.zip

    Changelog:
    1. format partition to ext3 filesystem
    2. usb storage to share
    3. disk free space
    4. computer name can be set different from SSID
    5. running script
    6. Windows 98/ME work with FAT on WL-HDD
    7. 40GB partition limit to 160GB
    8. connection limit to 12
    9. Fix: data exist after formatting
    10. turn of USB LED while formatting
    11. disable the usb ftp while usb mode is set to autocopy
    Mirror @ Chupa.nl: (down)
    http://files.wl500g.info/asus/wlhdd/...DD_1230_en.zip
    Last edited by Antiloop; 15-12-2004 at 09:31.

  2. #2
    It is actualy 1.2.3.0

    I've installed it.. and the IDE speed was increased by 5%.

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by master1601
    It is actualy 1.2.3.0
    Ah, yes my mistake
    @Antiloop:can you correct the thread title? thanks
    I've installed it.. and the IDE speed was increased by 5%.
    How did you measure that?

  4. #4
    My measurement was wrong.

    I looked at the 100mb network connection... (task manager)

    First it was 14% of 100Mb/s and now 19%..

    so actualy it's 30% increase of speed. Forgive me if i'm wrong

  5. #5
    Do we compare apples with pears?

    A increase of the network load by 5% (from 14% to 19%) doesn't neccessary have anything to do with an increase of the IDE (read/write) speed.
    In the worst case this could be due to network problems. (retransmits, more overhead, smaller packet size, etc.)

    Could you please give us more details on how you messured this?
    How dit you generate the network traffic?
    What volume of data dit you send/copy to the WL-HDD?
    How were the network settings before and after?
    etc.

    If it ends up to be a 'real' increase (30%) of transported content, this would in deed be very impressive and should ease the problems of streaming video content a lot!!!

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    I guess he 'measured' it with taskmanager under Windows XP which you can't use for serious benchmarking IMHO.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by Styno
    I guess he 'measured' it with taskmanager under Windows XP which you can't use for serious benchmarking IMHO.
    I did measure it in taskmanager, but i noticed after upgrade to the new firmware, a shorter time to copy and read files from the harddisk.

    Did not write the times down..

  8. #8
    Could you please give us more details on how you messured this?
    TASKMANAGER
    How dit you generate the network traffic?
    100Mb FILE Write to HDD and same file read
    What volume of data dit you send/copy to the WL-HDD?
    See previous question..
    How were the network settings before and after?
    SAME

  9. #9
    Quote Originally Posted by master1601
    I did measure it in taskmanager, but i noticed after upgrade to the new firmware, a shorter time to copy and read files from the harddisk.
    Did you reformat your drive to ext3?

    Some other guys also reported better disk performance. Whereas mine got slower!

    Here's how you normally measure raw hdd performance:

    Code:
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/harddisk/part2/testfile bs=16k count=16384 
    
    raw write speed 3.5MB/sec (was 3.8MB/sec with 1.1.2.8) 
    16384+0 records in 
    16384+0 records out 
    real    1m 13.91s 
    user    0m 0.35s 
    sys     0m 33.33s 
    # 
    # 
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/tmp/harddisk/part2/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k 
    
    raw read speed 6.2MB/sec (was 9.1MB/sec with 1.1.2.8)
    16384+0 records in 
    16384+0 records out 
    real    0m 41.20s 
    user    0m 0.16s 
    sys     0m 17.21s 
    #
    [Update]
    Yes indeed! The ext3 filesystem is much faster.

    here we go:
    Code:
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/harddisk/part1/testfile bs=16k count=16384 
    
    raw write speed 5MB/sec (was 3.8MB/sec with 1.1.2.8) 
    16384+0 records in 
    16384+0 records out 
    real    0m 50.72s 
    user    0m 0.35s 
    sys     0m 46.90s 
    # 
    # 
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/tmp/harddisk/part1/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k 
    
    raw read speed 11.2MB/sec (was 9.1MB/sec with 1.1.2.8) 
    16384+0 records in 
    16384+0 records out 
    real    0m 22.66s 
    user    0m 0.18s 
    sys     0m 18.04s 
    #
    Last edited by JOCKYW2001; 15-12-2004 at 15:39.

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    hi,
    I measured the raw speed...

    Code:
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/harddisk/part1/testfile bs=16k count=16384
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    real    0m 54.34s
    user    0m 0.31s
    sys     0m 47.12s
    
    4,7 MB/sec writing
    
    
    # /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/busybox time dd if=/tmp/harddisk/part1/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k
    16384+0 records in
    16384+0 records out
    real    0m 27.85s
    user    0m 0.25s
    sys     0m 17.60s
    
    9,2 MB/sec reading
    ..that is imo pretty good ! I formattet the disc with ext3 and I have no WLAN and UPnP-Advertising is disabled.

    cu,
    peter
    Last edited by petgun; 15-12-2004 at 14:58.

  11. #11
    @JockW2001
    What HDD do you have installed in your WL-HDD?

    @Petgun
    Is your file system formated as ext3?

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    hi,
    Quote Originally Posted by pepe
    @Petgun
    Is your file system formated as ext3?
    .I formattet the disc with ext3.
    cu,
    peter

  13. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by pepe
    @JockW2001
    What HDD do you have installed in your WL-HDD?
    # ./hdparm -i /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

    /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc:

    Model=FUJITSU MHT2080AT, FwRev=0022, SerialNo=NN5AT4915M5H
    Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
    RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
    BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
    CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
    IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
    PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
    DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
    UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
    AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
    Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:

    * signifies the current active mode

  14. #14

    Unhappy Network Neighborhood / Samba

    After upgrade to firmware v1.2.3.0 the [Network Neighborhood] with [Apply rules in shared node] doesn't work anymore. I can't connect with a windows XP machine. I tried [net use ..] and [map network drive] in windows explorer. Firmware 1.1.2.8 works fine. In this new firmware I have to disable security and use the guest account or [share all partitions in disk].

    Does anyone have the same problem and a solution?

  15. #15
    You might want to try this: install my 1.1.2.8 custom firmware, it has Samba 3.0.9 and afaik works fine. Next you upgrade to 1.2.3.0 and put the script below in /tmp/harddisk/part1 and call it init.sh. Also put "init.sh" in the "initial script" textbox of the Storage Setting menu of the web interface.

    Code:
    #!/bin/sh 
    /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/telnetd -d -l /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin/mysh 
    
    mount -o bind /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/etc/ /etc 
      
    cd /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/bin 
    
    # start userspace NFSv3 daemon 
    mkdir /var/lib 
    mkdir /var/lib/nfs 
    cp /etc/exports /var/lib/nfs/etab 
    ./portmap 
    ./mountd 
    ./unfsd 
    
    # start FTP daemon 
    #killall -9 stupid-ftpd 
    #./vsftpd & 
      
    # start Samba 3.0.9 daemon 
    killall -9 nmbd 
    killall -9 smbd 
    ./nmbd -s /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf -D 
    ./smbd -s /tmp/harddisk/part1/conf/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf -D
    PS: vsftpd is commented out fttb. I need the 1.2.3.0 GPL sourcecode in order to build it in.
    Attached Files Attached Files
    Last edited by JOCKYW2001; 01-01-2005 at 15:00.

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