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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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