Cough... :-) ok, so they don't exactly fight it but they don't incorporate any of the improvements unslung has made into their firmware.. Thanks John for getting the snippet.. Don S. Quoting John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com>: > On 4/26/07, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > For the money, the unit does exactly what I need. I wish LinkSys would > > embrace > > Unslung instead of fighting it. > > > <Cough> > > ----snippet----- > Mike Wagner, director of marketing for Linksys states: "While Linksys does > not support any of the alternate firmware available for the NSLU2, we are > always delighted to see a product gain such widespread acceptance. Like the > similar community that emerged to enhance the WRT54G before it, the > creativity and ingenuity of Linksys customers inspires us to continually > improve our products." So it sounds like Linksys is aware of the goings-on > and is planning nothing to discourage it. > > ---end snippet---- > > source: http://smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/29774/77/1/1/ > > Don S. > > > > Quoting John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com>: > > > > > On 4/26/07, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Be advised that if you get one of these units when you connect your > > drive > > > > to it > > > > , depending of the firmware version, it will re-format the drive to a > > > > linux > > > > exp3 device. You won't be able to connect the USB drive to your > > Windows > > > > box and > > > > access it again. > > > > > > > > > > > > Not true - I just unslung a stock NSLU, moved one of the externals to my > > > windows box and installed ext2 drivers for winodws ( > > > http://www.fs-driver.org/). Got my data off. The unslung NSLU now has > > one > > > of the original drives (original data intact) and a usb printer (which I > > can > > > print to from any computer on my network) > > > > > > As off-line storage I like it beats tape drives, but as a device that I > > > > could > > > > run a database against or any high access application, not so much. > > > > > > > > Don S. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >