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0. Supports |
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As this driver is a beta public review, the features of the driver are limited. |
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- XIMETA Aggregated disks are not supported. |
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- Hibernation, standby are not supported |
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- This driver is a beta until there is no bug report for three months to code.ximeta.com |
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1. Register the NetDisk |
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You can find NDAS "ID" and NDAS "key" from the the bottom of the NetDisk. |
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If your NDAS ID (20 characters) and NDAS key (5 characters) are |
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ID: AF7R2-2MKK4-UHG9S-5RHTG |
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KEY: 8QT6U |
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then execute the following commands. |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin register AF7R2-2MKK4-UHG9S-5RHTG-8QT6U --name MyDisk |
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Please note that 'MyDisk' is any name named by you. |
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You will get the numeric slot number(s) for each disk on the NetDisk by |
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cat /proc/ndas/devices/MyDisk/slots |
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check the status of the NetDisk, if you can get the slot number from commands above. |
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cat /proc/ndas/devs |
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Make sure the NetDisk turns on and is attached in the same network. |
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2. To enable the NetDisk, please type the following commands: |
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Use the numeric slot number that you get from /proc/ndas/devices/MyDisk/slots. if you get '1' as the slot number from /proc/ndas/devices/MyDisk/slots then, execute one of the following command. |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin enable -s 1 -o w ( exclusive write and read mode ) |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin enable -s 1 -o r ( read-only mode ) |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin enable -s 1 -o s ( for GFS file system ) |
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This command will print out the path of the block device file. For example, /dev/nda, /dev/ndb, /dev/ndas-001000001:0. |
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Your NetDisk will then have to be partitioned and/or formatted if not already. |
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3. To partition or format, please do the following: |
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WARNING: All data will be erased. |
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# fdisk /dev/nda, |
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# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/nda1 ... |
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Your NetDisk is now ready for use! |
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= Additional Commands = |
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To disable the NetDisk: |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin disable -s 1 |
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Note: disable is to make the NetDisk to be disconnected from the Linux machine. especially it will release the exclusively write permission and the other Linux / MS Windows machine can gain the exclusive write permission. |
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To Unregister the NetDisk |
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/usr/sbin/ndasadmin unregister --name MyDisk |
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Note: 'unregister' is to delete the registration so that the NetDisk is not registered in the next booting of Linux machine. |
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Note: The name 'MyDisk' should be the parameter you set on 'register' command. |
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4. Trademark |
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The Linux trademark is a U.S. registered trademark of Linux Torvalds. |
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The Red Hat trademark is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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The Fedora trademark is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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The SuSE trademark is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries |
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All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. |
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