#ix2-200

[zirnhelt]

This page guided me through the iSCSI attachment of my Iomega ix2-200 to my Ubuntu netbook.

Some challenges came from the fact that the older ix2-200 (i.e., non-Cloud edition) is not well documented on the Iomega sites anymore, and the steps for the Cloud edition are different.

I got some guidance from vTexan, but had to poke around the older UI to find how to add an iSCSI disk - it's not in the iSCSI area as it appears to be with the newer UI - it's actually in the Shared Storage tab that you can add a new iSCSI drive.

Note that this is not like other shares - the space is dedicated and cannot serve more than this purpose.

[chrispont]

Allow startup daemons on StorCenter IX2-200 NAS (and other Soho based devices)

It's useful once you've added packages to the StorCenter IX2-200 to have certain daemons start when the device starts up. I know from having a dodgy dishwasher that trips the power on certain cycles (yes I know I should have a UPS :-)) that it becomes annoying pretty fast to have to SSH onto your device to startup SABnzbd+ etc. What became apparent is that adding services as normal by creating a script in init.d and running update-rc.d doesn't work and the service is not persistent. From a bit of reading on the web, it seems that the StorCenter overwrites certain volumes at startup. To set up your own services / daemons, you need to list a script in /mnt/apps/usr/local/cfg/sohoProcs.xml. The problem is that this exists in a read-only partition, so to edit this file, you need to make it writable. DISCLAIMER!: I've run these commands myself with no ill affects, but I take no responsibility if you brick your device. Run at your own risk! To make the partition writable: mknod -m0660 /dev/loop3 b 7 3 chown root.disk /dev/loop3 mkdir /tmp/apps mount -o loop /boot/images/apps /tmp/apps Make a backup copy of the config: cp /tmp/apps/usr/local/cfg/sohoProcs.xml /tmp/apps/usr/local/cfg/sohoProcs.xml.bk Edit the config - I use nano as I've installed it using ipkg (yeah, I'm not hardcode :-) ), but substitute this for vi or similar if that's what you use: nano /tmp/apps/usr/local/cfg/sohoProcs.xml I replaced the thumbnails program declaration (which was disabled) with a new script I'd added in /opt/etc/init.d/start_init_scripts.sh. I guess you could add your own <Program> declaration if you wanted. <Program Name="thumbnails" Path="/opt/etc/init.d/start_init_scripts.sh"> <SysOption MaxMem="96M" Nice="15" Restart="-1"/> </Program> Unmount: umount /tmp/apps rm /dev/loop3 Then it's a case of making the script do what you need. Mine starts any script in the /opt/etc/init.d/ directory that starts with "S"... #!/bin/sh rm /opt/var/log/boot if [ -d /opt/etc/init.d ]; then for f in /opt/etc/init.d/S* ; do #[ -x $f ] && $f start $f start | tee -a /opt/var/log/boot done fi #this will start the original thumbnails #/usr/local/thumbnails/thumbnails & Hope this helps someone. Cheers Chris

[chrispont]

Installing Optware and SABnzbd+ on the Iomega StorCenter IX2-200

I've recently purchased an Iomega StorCenter IX2-200 and it's a great bit of kit. Besides other things it supports RAID-1, TimeMachine, DLNA and iSCSI out of the box. Like a lot of things, I quickly went from exploring what it does, to trying to figure out how it does it. I discovered it was running a version of Debian and after a few minutes googling I was able to get root access onto the box. Although I went in a very round about way of doing it, I later discovered that SABnzbd+ can be easily installed using the Optware package system.

Getting Root

To allow access via SSH you need to access a secret page used for support access. Point your browser to https:///support.html where is the url or IP address you use to access the web interface of the IX2-200. Check the box next to Allow remote access for support (SSH and SFTP) and click apply. SSH onto the box. The password for root is "soho" + your usual admin password for the IX2-200, so if your password was bananas, your root password would be "sohobananas".

Installing optware

The Optware package system was originally developed for the Linksys NSLU2 running the alternative Unslung firmware which has now been updated to work with other platforms and contains various packages that work with the IX2-200. The IX2-200 ships with ipkg installed which means we can configure it to work with the optware repositories with the following commands cat <<EOF > /etc/ipkg.conf src cross http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable src native http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/native/unstable EOF Update ipkg with the new repositories... ipkg update You can check which packages are available using... ipkg list ...and to install one of them... ipkg install So lets install SABnzbd+ ipkg install sabnzbdplus This covers installing sabnzbd+. I've also got it starting as an init.d service, but I'll leave this for another post (the StorCenter overwrites the configuration at startup so you need to allow write access to the xml config file that the SorCenter uses on startup!) Hope this helps someone so far. Cheers Chris