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Topic: Seagate GoFlex Net - any info?

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This looks like the sucessor to the DockStar but does anyone know what's inside and can we put OpenWrt onto it??

Kartman wrote:

This looks like the sucessor to the DockStar but does anyone know what's inside and can we put OpenWrt onto it??

It apparently uses the PogoPlug service, so it's probably a Marvell Kirkwood "plug computer" like the DockStar but with SATA connectors and no USB hub.  The same approach I used to put OpenWrt on the DockStar would probably work once any differences in NAND flash layout are figured out.

I did a bit of Googling and found this:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- … mp;start=1

There's some nice pictures of it opened.


Basically, it looks like the hardware is much the same as the dockstar - 128MB ram, 256MB flash, 1.2GHz cpu

Who's going to be the first to hack it?

I have openwrt running on the goFlex Home.

The stuff for the dockstar is mostly working you only have to add sata support and flash a u-boot, that enables the sata subsystem.

A lot changes in 5 months!

archlinux and debian wheezy already work on Seagate GoFlex Net (STAK200). When will work openwrt ? smile
openwrt may be fastest ?

doz.me wrote:

archlinux and debian wheezy already work on Seagate GoFlex Net (STAK200). When will work openwrt ? smile

As mentioned above, this device works just fine with OpenWRT.

instruction: how i install successfully openwrt on seagate goflex net in to NAND
(serial with cable nokia's DKU-5 and tftp-server)
setenv ipaddr 192.168.0.2
setenv serverip 192.168.0.1
setenv arcNumber 3089
setenv mainlineLinux yes
setenv bootcmd nand read 0x6400000 0x100000 0x400000\; bootm 0x6400000\;
setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw rootfstype=jffs2
saveenv
mw 0x6400000 0xffff 0x400000
#flash kernel: http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … ood-uImage
tftpboot 0x6400000 openwrt-kirkwood-uImage
nand erase 0x100000 0x400000
nand write.e 0x6400000 0x100000 0x400000
#flash rootfs: http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/ … 2-128k.img
mw 0x6400000 0xffff 0x400000
tftpboot 0x6400000 openwrt-kirkwood--jffs2-128k.img
nand erase 0x500000 0xfb00000
nand write.e 0x6400000 0x500000 0x400000
boot
#after 3 min - hw-poweroff, then poweron
thank to: http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/734/

(Last edited by doz.me on 23 Feb 2013, 18:12)

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