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2. If I restart my NAS all Transmission settings are lost.

You need to manual edit config file, look here for more info https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles

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also i am very interessted on a newer release of the TwonkyMedia Server on my GigaNas Device!



Ver. 6.1.x available... !



but how to fit the packages to work with the GigaNAS 35HD-DUAL-NAS-E ??



can't belive that none is interessted on this and had it already running..



Pls Pro's help !!



Big11

Hi,

just a stupid question.

Have you tried to reinstall Transmission?



Try to do so. Disable it then uninstall it, restart the nas and reinstall transmission.

Hope it works!

Close to giving up on this now. I've had the maxtors running both powered from an old atx power supply so no load on the nasdrives power supply. It seemed to be going well but sometime after 10 minutes it locked up just as before. The seagates will still not start even when powered from the atx so i think we can rule out power issues. I've also used different sata cables so its not that either.



Bought this to replace a WD nas device that failed. Don't think I'll bother replacing this one. An old PC turned on for backup use only will be my new solution.

I have a USB drive enclosure with its own power supply. I connected one drive to that for power and let the other get its power from the giganas unit. It still does not work with 2 x seagate drives so it is not a power issue.



If you check my earlier posts you will see the unit will function with 2 x Maxtor drives (although it dies after 10 minutes of data transfer) so it can run 2 drives.



I removed the main board from the case and inspected the solder joints on the sata sockets with a jewellers loupe and can see no sign of poor joints.



Keep the suggestions coming

Actually it does explain your problem...

When soldering is bad, the unit can't "pull" enough current to run two drives.

YARON.

I will check the soldering but that does not explain my problem. The unit will see only one Seagate disk at a time but it can be plugged into either of the two sata ports - both work on their own. 2 Seagate drives plugged in and it does not work at all.

Hi all,

I had the same problem with two units.

The solution was the same for both cases.



Doesn't it seem weird to you that all of the sudden one of the disk dissapears ?



Usually it happened long ago & you didn't pay attention OR because you moved the box.



Here is why.



Each disk has a connector.

Those connectors are poorly weld to the motherboard.

After a while they disconnect or just get loose.



Get it weld again (IT'S HARD !) & your NAS will get back to live.



YARON.

Yes. I held the rear button for 10 seconds+ and the settings were reset. made no difference.



Do you know the pinouts for making a cable up? I have an old PC with a real serial port so I could probably solder something together.



Long time since I initiated comms over a serial cable so I'll need some help



Edit. just been searching on serial connections. seems this needs the conversion hardware because of the 3.3V and a simple cable will not work. Don't think I believe in this unit enough to spend the money on a USB cable. If I flashed the firmware then I would expect any faulty code would have been overwritten?

Did you try to do a reset with rear push button?



Serial cable is useful to see NAS boot sequence on PC's screen like you're in front of a linux PC booting.

Maybe there's some error that needs input via console (like happened to me).



Sorry for my English.

I do not have a serial cable.



I have done some more experimenting today.



Using a USB cradle I have checked the health of both drives connected to my windows 7 PC. both show as healthy and display the partitions. I have not formatted them etc in the hope there may be a fix sometime. So the drives seem to be OK



I have 2 x 160Gb sata maxtors that i no longer use. I put them in the giganas and it worked. Formatted to jbod then deleted raid and formatted to raid 0. Set up shares and workgroup then selected 40 Gb of files to copy to the new share. Started off fine but after 10 minutes windows could no longer see the giganas and the unit had locked up. Pulling the power to stop it and restarting worked but again the unit locked up after around 10 minutes of data transfer.



Putting the 2 original Seagate drives back in there is no change - does not boot properly.



I found the firmware link at the top of this forum and disconnected both drives and did the update. Took a surprisingly long time but completed successfully.... and made no difference to the problems. Still fails after 10 minutes with the maxtors and does not run with the Seagates.



I see TTL USB serial cables on ebay. What can the cable do? Don't want to throw good money after bad..



Oh and thanks for any help

Anyone of you has a serial cable to try something? You need a 232/TTL 3,3V cable

I can only say that I have the same problem.

Since my 750 gb Samsung died, I can not create raid anymore, cause nas accepts only one disc....

Hi,



I have a 2 bay Giganas fitted with 2 x Seagate 500Gb drives which has been working fine in raid 0. It has the original firmware. No attempt made to update it.



Today I noticed that it had locked up and was not visible on the network.



Experimenting to see if it was completely dead or not I disconnected the sata leads from both drives and it powered up. i could connect to the web interface where of course it said no drives present.



I then connected one drive only and powered it up. Again it worked and i could see the page saying no raid present and showing one drive. Repeating this for the second drive (ie one drive only connected) it again booted fine and the second drive position was shown as present. The unit will shut down OK on the switch.



If I connect both drives and power it up it does not boot. Power and Link lights lit solid. No activity on access light. Drives are spinning. Nothing visible on my network and no access to the web interface. The setup CD cannot find it either. it will not turn off and i have to pull the power to kill it.



The unit was used as a backup device and i have now repeated my normal backups onto plug in USB drives so whilst I'd like to have access to the data in the Giganas it is not a major problem.



Just hoping for some advice as to if the problem can be fixed.

I have one of these, been using it for the past month. Manuals and documentation is rubbish but so far i have it working as FTP and Print server and all is working ok. I did read somewhere that another manufactured NAS uses the exact same O/S so there may be better documentation out there somewhere, will keep looking for now I think.

Ive not had a single reply to this no matter were ive posted about it.

Seems people dont help any body any more or they just dont reply.



So im not further on with this than i was when i posted about it.

Hi guys,



Hoping someone here can help with my Transmission problems. I'm not sure if they are related but I'm experiencing 2 annoying things with Transmission:



1. I do not have write permissions to the files and folders downloaded by Transmission. I have to Telnet in and do a chmod -R 777 on the folder in question to be able to write to it. I'm pretty sure this is causing an indexing problem with Twonkymedia which is a pain in the butt when I want to watch a movie I've recently downloaded.



2. If I restart my NAS all Transmission settings are lost.



Has anyone had these problems? Please help if you can

Hi,



Did you get any replies from anywhere else on this?



I have the same piece of kit and I'm not very impressed with the OS.

I'd like to change it but of course there's no CD and no SSH.



Does anyone know if this can be booted from USB?

Or how to log in to it rather than going through the web portal?

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Okay I managed to bork the firmware update. Don't know exactly what went wrong but the connection dropped mid through and now alas the NAS now just shows "system booting" and I can't get it to a browser usable state.



It currently has 2 x 500GB drives in it set as RAID 1 (mirrored). My questions are:

1/ How can I resolve the firmware issue or get it back to a usable/functioning state.

2/ What's the process for recovering the data if I can't get the NAS back to normal?



I am quite fresh faced with on these kinds of things and getting it set-up initially was quite a chore, so would appreciate any detailed advice.



P.s. anyone found a website that actually has the latest firmwares for this product?

Which version of the firmware did you use? And where did you get it? I'm having some issues with 1.5TB drive support -- the system wont give me an option to create a raid set, only use them individually...



I'm about to embark on breaking this system in bits and pieces and setting up regular linux on it... figured I'll ask before i start it

Salve a tutti, mi auto rispondo al problema di Transmission.

Ho vuotato il Nas ed ho ricreato il Raid ed il filesystem da zero, ho reinstallato Transmission 1.72 e finalmente scarica

Per il resto continuo lo studio, grazie

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo del forum ma lo seguo da diverso tempo visto che ho un giganas e volendo seguire gli sviluppi ho letto spesso i vari post.

Ho qualche domanda da portvi per controllare se è successo anche a voi.

Il mio nas ha sempre avuto qualche problemino in fase di prima accensione, spesso il primo boot dopo tempo che è spento è finto, nel senso che i led si accendo ma poi in realtà non parto i servizi, dopo un riavvio 'brutale' tutto funziona senza nessun problema.

Ho provato vari firmware, ma il difetto persiste, forse controllando da console seriale posso scoprire di più ma non avendo l'adattatore giusto per il momento vado a intuizione.

Attualmente ho installato il firmware G5S604110226300 dell' atlantisland modello A06-NASG302D praticamente uguale al giganas, e devo dire che mi trovo molto bene.

Ho deciso da qualche giorno di installare un client torrent, dopo aver letto sul forum ho installato Transmission 1.72, ho fatto un pò di configurazioni dal suo pannello di controllo ma ho un piccolo problema, perchè pur avendo aperte le porte sul router non riesce a trovare nessun seed, eppure ho controllato il link torrent e seed ci sono.

Ultimima domanda, qualcuno di voi sa come aggiornare in modo 'permanente' (ovvero senza dover ricare le modifiche dopo ogni reboot) la distro del nas, nel senso, se volessi cambiare la versione di busybox installata, oppure aggiungere qualche altra funzione, in che ambiente è compilata tutta la distro?

Grazie in anticipo



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Hello everyone, I am new to the forum but I followed it for a long time since I have a giganas and wanting to follow the developments.

My NAS has always had some problems at first start, often the first boot is a fakeboot, meaning that the LED lights but in reality not delivery services after an hard reboot everything works perfectly.

I tried different firmware, but the fault persists, maybe by checking the serial console I can find out more but I havent the right adapter for the time being I'm going to guess.

Currently I have installed the firmware G5S604110226300 for atlantisland model A06-NASG302D, practically equal to giganas, and it's all perfect.

I decided a few days ago to install a torrent client, after reading the forum I installed Transmission 1.72, I made some configurations from its control panel but I have a small problem, because 'Ive open port on the router but bt client cant find seed, but I checked the link torrent and seed are ok.

Last question, some of you know how to upgrade 'permanent' (ie, without having to reload the changes after every reboot) the distributions of NAS in the sense, if you wanted to change the version of busybox installed, or add some other function, which Environment and fill in all the distro?

Thanks in advance, sorry for my ugly english