Archive for September, 2009

CableCARD problems again after all these years!?

Please note the last update at the bottom of this post. The issue was once again solved by a firmware update from Toshiba. — It took more than a month of back and forth to get the CableCARD working in the first place. Once the CableCARD was set up properly and the firmware for...

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Apple has a great sense of humor

Apple has a great sense of humor

Due to a power failure, my NAS device was powered down. When the connection failed, the icon used to represent the NAS changed. Normally it looks like a rack-mounted XServe, but when the connection was lost it showed up as an old-school CRT monitor with a Windows blue screen of death (BSOD). Here’s a...

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Automatic email alerting of zpool problems and weekly zpool scrub

Since I’m using consumer drives that are prone to failure (one already failed within 2 days, but ZFS prevented any data loss). I am using the script located here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/zpadmin.txt. This will script allows for regular monitoring and scrubs of the pool with email alerting. These next bunch of steps may not be necessary...

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Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers

Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers

This step is not necessary, but it seems like a good idea if you have Mac computers. Create the XML files that tell MDNS what to advertise. (Found this information from here, here, and here. Create /etc/avahi/services/smb.service with the following content: <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name> <service> <type>_device-info._tcp</type> <port>548</port>...

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