LinkStation mini <LS-WS1.0TGL/R1>

eddiepi · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:56 am

Don't know where to put this topic
since it has two drives and is a LS series... :lol:

got my hand on a piece of this little machine just now
and I do mean it's little...

Since I don't know much about acp_commander and stuff
I just followed the EXACT same things that other people put on the wiki
so here it is:

Code:

BUFFALO INC. LinkStation series
LS-WSGLBA4 login: root
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# ls
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type xfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/ram1 on /mnt/ram type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/md2 on /mnt/array1 type xfs (rw,noatime,sunit=128,swidth=256)
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# uname -r
2.6.16.16-arm1
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw initrd=0x00800040,15M panic=5 func=0 BOOT
VER=1.13
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) rev 0 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 266.24
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x926
CPU revision    : 0
Cache type      : write-back
Cache clean     : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown  : format C
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 32768
I assoc         : 1
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 1024
D size          : 32768
D assoc         : 1
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 1024

Hardware        : MV-88fxx81
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00040000 00001000 "phys_mapped_flash"
root@LS-WSGLBA4:~# cd  /proc
root@LS-WSGLBA4:/proc# cat partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0  488386584 sda
   8     1    1004031 sda1
   8     2    5004247 sda2
   8     4          1 sda4
   8     5    1004031 sda5
   8     6  480480021 sda6
   8    16  488386584 sdb
   8    17    1004031 sdb1
   8    18    5004247 sdb2
   8    20          1 sdb4
   8    21    1004031 sdb5
   8    22  480480021 sdb6
  31     0        256 mtdblock0
   9     0    1003904 md0
   9    10    1003904 md10
   9     1    5004160 md1
   9     2  960959872 md2
root@LS-WSGLBA4:/proc# ls
1              1516           5941           buffalo        misc
1046           1566           600            bus            modules
1049           1567           601            cmdline        mounts
11             168            6012           cpu            mtd
1172           169            6017           cpuinfo        net
1173           1703           6018           crypto         partitions
1263           192            6674           devices        resource_dump
1303           2              6726           diskstats      scsi
1310           3              6770           dma_copy       self
1311           327            6774           driver         slabinfo
1312           38             6790           execdomains    stat
1319           39             6796           filesystems    swaps
1333           4              6812           fs             sys
1358           40             6824           interrupts     sysvipc
1367           41             6850           iomem          tty
1370           42             7918           ioports        uptime
1486           43             847            kallsyms       version
1487           44             8947           kmsg           vmstat
1499           45             909            loadavg        zoneinfo
1507           491            9655           locks
1510           494            9656           mdstat
1514           5              buddyinfo      meminfo
root@LS-WSGLBA4:/proc# cd buffalo
root@LS-WSGLBA4:/proc/buffalo# cat enet
MAC=00:1D:73:4C:8B:A4
link=100Mbps
duplex=full
jumboframe=enable
mtu=1500
regster9 value=0x0300
mode.config=auto:slave
mode.actual=master
=== for debug ===


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       0x0000 0x0300 0x4000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x3000
       0x6060 0x6c08 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
       0x0000 0x0000 0x0040 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000

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       0x0000 0x0300 0x4000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x3000
       0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0009 0x0000
       0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000root@LS-WSGLBA4:/p
roc/buffalo# cat firmware
SERIES=LinkStation
PRODUCTNAME=LS-WSGL/R1(SUJIN)
VERSION=0.16
SUBVERSION=FLASH 0.00
PRODUCTID=0x00003002
BUILDDATE=2008/03/12 11:17:32
BOOTVER=1.13

99% of the stuff here I can't understand,
and I'm not even going to try

mindbender · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:49 pm

1) created new subforum for Linkstation Mini
2) moved topic to new subforum
------------------------------------------------

its damn small

another 3 things you could execute for us:

Code:

cat /proc/meminfo                  -> information about memory
lsmod                   -> loaded kernel modules
dmesg                 -> kernel messages since bootup

great that you confirmed that acp_commander works. and it seems as if the box again is based on the marvell orion SoC. both very good.

seems as if again only the uboot bootloader is in flash as there is only one flash partition.

kernel is again 2.6.16.16-arm1, the same kernel version as the LS-LGL, LS-HGL, Terastation Live and the LS Pro/LS Live with the v2 hardware.

actually from the systems perspective it looks similar to a LS Pro DUO.....as it has 2 hdds inside and raid is used.

very nice that you tested this....would you open the box and make pictures from everything especially the mainboard? i would like to know if there are any serial/jtag ports.

EDIT: posted news link to this thread on the wiki mainpage.

wupme · **Joined:** Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:39 pm **Posts:** 9

Ok that thing is really small, it's cute :biglol:

Seriously, my Notebooks power supply is bigger than that.
What about the Price? I think it would be nice to have a Linkstation that i'm gonna put in my Notebook case

Sylver · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:27 pm

It looks like a great piece of hardware !
We need some pictures of the PCB now

Is it possible to have the output of a dmesg command and a free command ?

mindbender · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:42 pm

i think about getting one. so far i do not know how much it will be..

eddiepi · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:39 am

got a source who threw me some more info.
all i got is: Elpida EDE5116AFSE-5C-E
so that means it uses DDR2-533 32Mx16?
Anything's got an Elpida's got me convinced~ :up:

I'll try to get some time to take the PCB pix soon!
sorry for the delay~ :roll:

According to SmallNetBuilder http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30391/76,
LinkStation mini 1.0TB will be sold for about US$699.

mindbender · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:57 am

hey...you know what you should try? you should try to install the optware feed!

viewtopic.php?p=39162#p39162

goat · **Posted:** Sat May 03, 2008 9:39 pm

I wonder about the sleep capabilities of the device.

As I imagine this has the same limitations as all the current products with 2.6 kernels, I looked at the press release at Buffalotech.com and this line seems a bit disheartening:

Quote:

It also includes a Remote Power Feature, which can power up the unit remotely with the included Navigator software.

So this means that the device has a WOL capability of some sort, but not timely disk sleep built in? That feature will be interesting to investigate, as I like the "cuteness" of this small nas.

-goat

hawking · **Joined:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:05 pm **Posts:** 28

Does this mean Mini only have 64M memory? smaller than LS pro's 128M?
Then it will be a pain to run debian and mldonkey on it.
Thanks.

eddiepi wrote:

got a source who threw me some more info.
all i got is: Elpida EDE5116AFSE-5C-E
so that means it uses DDR2-533 32Mx16?
Anything's got an Elpida's got me convinced~ :up:

I'll try to get some time to take the PCB pix soon!
sorry for the delay~ :roll:

According to SmallNetBuilder http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30391/76,
LinkStation mini 1.0TB will be sold for about US$699.

mindbender · **Posted:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:14 am

this thread got linked to in the Linkstation Mini Review at smallnetbuilder.com. woohoo

hawking · **Joined:** Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:05 pm **Posts:** 28

this review said the RAM is 64M, but our page said it's 128M
which one is correct?
thanks.

mindbender wrote:

this thread got linked to in the Linkstation Mini Review at smallnetbuilder.com. woohoo

mindbender · **Posted:** Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:47 pm

we either need PCB pics or the output of "cat /proc/meminfo".

NRGizeR · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:37 am

Hi,

I just came back from the store with my new Linkstation Mini and, of course, ran acp_commander as the first order of business after plugging it in

. I thought I would shed some light on the questions that were posed earlier in this thread. As background info: This is the 1tb linkstation mini, configured in raid 0 and connected to my network with a 1gbps link.

cat /proc/meminfo:

Code:

root@LINKSTATION:/# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       126236 kB
MemFree:         62112 kB
Buffers:           100 kB
Cached:          38176 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          33444 kB
Inactive:        19396 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       126236 kB
LowFree:         62112 kB
SwapTotal:     1003896 kB
SwapFree:      1003896 kB
Dirty:              36 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          21212 kB
Slab:             7928 kB
CommitLimit:   1067012 kB
Committed_AS:   172968 kB
PageTables:        696 kB
VmallocTotal:   385024 kB
VmallocUsed:      1040 kB
VmallocChunk:   383984 kB

lsmod:

Code:

root@LINKSTATION:/# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk              38544  0
psnap                   4516  1 appletalk
llc                     8372  1 psnap
usblp                  14784  0
usb_storage            59975  0
ehci_marvell_hcd       33480  0
usbcore               127240  4 usblp,usb_storage,ehci_marvell_hcd

dmesg:

Code:

root@LINKSTATION:/# dmesg
r: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 128MB 0MB 0MB 0MB = 128MB total
Memory: 110620KB available (2992K code, 553K data, 112K init)
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=1331200)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 15360K
NET: Registered protocol family 16
FLASH boardId = 19
Flash bankwidth 1, base ff800000, size 40000
BUFFALO LS_WSGL_R1 FLASH size 256[KB]

  Marvell Development Board (LSP Version 1.7.8_NAS)-- BUFFALO_BOARD_LS_WSGL_R1

 Detected Tclk 166664740 and SysClk 200000000
Marvell USB EHCI Host controller #0: c16f5e00
Marvell USB EHCI Host controller #1: c16f5c00
pexBarOverlapDetect: winNum 2 overlap current 0
mvPexInit:Warning :Bar 2 size is illigal
it will be disabled
please check Pex and CPU windows configuration
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers enabled
PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
use IDMA acceleration in copy to/from user buffers. used channels 2 and 3
Done.
cesadev_init(c0011c44)
Fast Floating Point Emulator V0.9 (c) Peter Teichmann.
SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered (default)
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 3 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Marvell Gigabit Ethernet Driver 'egiga':
  o Ethernet descriptors in DRAM
  o DRAM SW cache-coherency
  o Checksum offload enabled
  o Loading network interface ** egiga_init_module (0)
'eth0'
Intergrated Sata device found
scsi0 : Marvell SCSI to SATA adapter
scsi1 : Marvell SCSI to SATA adapter
** BUFFALO Disable Command Queuing Function [0 0] **
** BUFFALO Disable Command Queuing Function [0 1] **
  Vendor: Hitachi   Model: HTS545050KTA300   Rev: BKFO
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
  Vendor: Hitachi   Model: HTS545050KTA300   Rev: BKFO
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Linux IAL (ERROR) : retry command host=0, bus=0 SCpnt = c1422ba0
SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Linux IAL (ERROR) : retry command host=1, bus=1 SCpnt = c1422ba0
SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 >
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
physmap flash device: 40000 at ff800000
CFI: Found no phys_mapped_flash device at location zero
>jedec_probe
Found: SST 39LF020
phys_mapped_flash: Found 1 x8 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank
number of JEDEC chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
RedBoot partition parsing not available
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
Kernel event proc (C) BUFFALO INC. V.1.00 installed.
MICON ctrl (C) BUFFALO INC. V.1.00 installed.
mvGppValueSet: Err. An attempt to set output value to GPP 15 in input mode.
Buffalo CPU Inerupts Driver (C) BUFFALO INC. Ver.0.01 alpha1 installed.
mvGppValueSet: Err. An attempt to set output value to GPP 2 in input mode.
Buffalo Gpio Control Driver (C) BUFFALO INC. Ver.0.02 installed.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
md: md10 stopped.
md: md1 stopped.
md: md0 stopped.
md: bind<sdb1>
md: bind<sda1>
raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
md: md10 stopped.
md: bind<sdb5>
md: bind<sda5>
raid1: raid set md10 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md: md1 stopped.
md: bind<sdb2>
md: bind<sda2>
raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
XFS mounting filesystem md1
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md1
XFS mounting filesystem md1
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md1
VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem).
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing init memory: 112K
Adding 1003896k swap on /dev/md10.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1003896k
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ehci_platform ehci_platform.4523: EHCI Platform Host Controller
ehci_platform ehci_platform.4523: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_platform ehci_platform.4523: irq 17, io mem 0x00000000
ehci_platform ehci_platform.4523: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
ehci_platform ehci_platform.16781: EHCI Platform Host Controller
ehci_platform ehci_platform.16781: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_platform ehci_platform.16781: irq 12, io mem 0x00000000
ehci_platform ehci_platform.16781: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
eth0: link down
eth0: link up<5>, full duplex<5>, speed 1 Gbps<5>
md: md2 stopped.
md: bind<sdb6>
md: bind<sda6>
md2: setting max_sectors to 128, segment boundary to 32767
raid0: looking at sda6
raid0:   comparing sda6(480479936) with sda6(480479936)
raid0:   END
raid0:   ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sdb6
raid0:   comparing sdb6(480479936) with sda6(480479936)
raid0:   EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 960959872 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 960959872 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
XFS mounting filesystem md2
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md2
BuffaloSwPollingCheck> SW_POWER_ON
NET: Registered protocol family 5
eth0: change mtu 1500 (buffer-size 1520) to 9676 (buffer-size 9696)
eth0: link down
eth0: link up<5>, full duplex<5>, speed 1 Gbps<5>

Anything else someone wants checked?

-NRG

bluerain · **Joined:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:51 am **Posts:** 20

I also bought a LinkStation Mini last week. Fry's had a good deal on them.

I love how small and quiet it is. (There's no obvious way to open the case, which is probably why nobody's posted pictures yet.)

The optware feed seems to work. I've installed perl and python and they both work fine.

Now I'm debating compiling and installing my own kernel, for maximum flexibility.

The ability to use acp_commander to break security on any LinkStation bugs me -- Buffalo should have set things up so that acp_commander won't work unless you put the box into a special recovery mode, say by holding the option button down for 10 seconds when you turn the box on.

mindbender · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:24 am

some low quality pics of the board were posted:
viewtopic.php?f=61&t=9386

following this post it seems to be easy to take the box apart. we need to document this like it did in
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.ph ... LS_Live_v1
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.ph ... LS_Live_v2
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.ph ... Ov2/TSLIVE

unfortunately i don`t own a LS mini....can someone be so kind and invest little time for this?

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