Firmware v1.2.3.0

[JOCKYW2001]

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

[master1601]

It is actualy 1.2.3.0

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

[JOCKYW2001]

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?

[master1601]

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

[pepe]

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!!!

[Styno]

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

[master1601]

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..

[JOCKYW2001]

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:

# /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:

# /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 
#

[master1601]

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

[petgun]

hi,
I measured the raw speed...

# /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

[pepe]

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

@Petgun
Is your file system formated as ext3?

[bartz]

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?

[JOCKYW2001]

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.

#!/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.

[Martin1802]

Hi :-)

I like my wl-hdd ... now (since 1.2.3) it is possible to switch off wlan *very-happy-now*

Or am I wrong? This Option in WL-HH Configure / Wireless / Advanced / Enable Radio? ... this option was added in Firmware V1.2.3 ... after upgrading FW and resetting to fatory defaults, nothing in selected yes neither no ... so I switched to no ... wlan led goes of after restart ... but after more configurations ... it switches on again :-(

but I have trouble to telnet to wl-hdd ...

---------------
linuxnote1:/home/mazi1802 # telnet 192.168.0.100
Trying 192.168.0.100...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.0.100: Connection refused
---------------

- any chance for a ssh server on wl-hdd?

- How to get the nfs server to my wl-hdd working? seen this howto for FW 1.2.8?

Thanks
Martin

[fallscrape]

I can't seem to get mine to update to the latest version - firmware reads "1.1.2.8" but I get "firmware update failed"

The unit still works fine and I've tried every mirror I can find just in case it was a corrupt download/mirror.

Any ideas?