It is actualy 1.2.3.0
I've installed it.. and the IDE speed was increased by 5%.
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:
Mirror @ Chupa.nl: (down)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
http://files.wl500g.info/asus/wlhdd/...DD_1230_en.zip
Last edited by Antiloop; 15-12-2004 at 08:31.
It is actualy 1.2.3.0
I've installed it.. and the IDE speed was increased by 5%.
Ah, yes my mistakeOriginally Posted by master1601
@Antiloop:can you correct the thread title? thanks
How did you measure that?I've installed it.. and the IDE speed was increased by 5%.
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
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!!!
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.Originally Posted by Styno
Did not write the times down..
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
Did you reformat your drive to ext3?Originally Posted by master1601
Some other guys also reported better disk performance. Whereas mine got slower!
Here's how you normally measure raw hdd performance:
[Update]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 #
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 14:39.
hi,
I measured the raw speed...
..that is imo pretty good ! I formattet the disc with ext3 and I have no WLAN and UPnP-Advertising is disabled.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
cu,
peter
Last edited by petgun; 15-12-2004 at 13:58.
@JockW2001
What HDD do you have installed in your WL-HDD?
@Petgun
Is your file system formated as ext3?
hi,
Originally Posted by pepecu,.I formattet the disc with ext3.
peter
# ./hdparm -i /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/discOriginally Posted by pepe
/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
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?
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.
PS: vsftpd is commented out fttb. I need the 1.2.3.0 GPL sourcecode in order to build it in.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
Last edited by JOCKYW2001; 01-01-2005 at 14:00.