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This community-driven site is geared towards MRT Communication's Network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Notice that this page is totally unrelated to the vendor. Click on the links on the right to find out which variant you have.

Please help collecting information and enhancing the wiki. In case you never edited a wiki before take a look at the cheatsheet and the User's guide. Currently anonymous edits are allowed, but as this might change because of spam please register at the forum (USE THIS LINK NOT ONE FROM CREATE ACCOUNT). You can login here with your forum user/pass then.

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Quick Start

There are two main kinds of MRT Communication's NAS box that most people coming here will have. The first and older kind is based on Storlink's Centroid chipset (35HD-DUAL-NAS, 35HD-DUALIDE-NAS) and the second and newer kind is based on Storlink's Gemini chipset (35HD-DUAL-NAS-E, 35HD-QUAD-NAS). The newer has better features but one major failing that it cannot be rescued without special hardware if you incorrectly change its firmware.

The firmware for both is based on a mix of bits & pieces (called Sausalito) on top of a 2.6.x Linux kernel. Most firmwares based on Sausalito have issues and if you're on this page then you probably are looking for an improved firmware. As of May 2008, the latest official MRT firmwares are:

• Centroid: G5S50033B30 (<insert Linux uname here>)
• Gemini: GIGA-NAS-G5S52256208 (Linux NAS 2.6.15 #180 Wed Jan 16 10:19:05 CST 2008 armv4l unknown)

Most people coming here will want improved firmwares:

• Tinky (both Centroid & Gemini), an improved firmware derived from the Icy Box NAS-2000 firmware which also based on Sausalito. You probably want to not replace your MRT kernel when flashing Tinky.
• OpenWRT Kamikaze v7.09 (Gemini only), the famous Debian-like firmware for NAS & home routers. This firmware runs entirely from flash disk and needs no hard drives at all - however, it is currently of beta quality, in particular there is some problem with heavy i/o on its JFFS flash drive (the system sometimes hangs during large file copies). Also, OpenWRT's web gui isn't fantastic and you will need to use a lot of console commands to fully configure a system.
• OpenFSG (Gemini only) is about how to build the SnapGear based firmware for the Freecom Network Drive Pro product which also uses a Gemini chipset and should port very easily. Currently this has a booting kernel which makes it as far as mounting the system drive but unfortunately then kernel panics. If ANYONE could make some progress with this problem we'd all be VERY grateful as this is a near-perfect firmware for the MRT GigaNAS.

Currently, there is no known way of booting a full Debian release on Storlink products but this is likely coming at some point.

NEWS

18.05.08: NAS FlashTool now supports GigaNAS, too
Thx to HwGuru, Rambo and LordScaffard, you can now unbrick a GigaNAS using JTAG. Read here.

30.03.08: OpenWRT project now on SourceForge
Opened the OpenWRT-StorLink project on SourceForge, see here.

29.03.08: Extending Webif^2 Tutorial
A good tutorial about extending OpenWRT WebIf^2 interface is here.

28.03.08: OpenWRT Kamikaze for GigaNAS 0.2
The second release of OpenWRT for GigaNAS is here, with 944 available packages!

05.03.08: OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.09 is here!
Enjoy OpenWRT for GigaNAS here. To build it see here

03.03.08: Notice the links to the Howtos and Infos in the Navigation box on the top right
It hopefully makes it easier for users to find the right pages even when the amount of articles grow.

02.03.08: The NAS unbricking guide
The definitive guide to unbrick your NAS, more info here

10.02.08: StorLink based NAS list
We are creating a list of StorLink-based NASes out there, more info here

02.02.08: Tinky-LS for GIGA Nas, too
The Tinky-LS firmware now available for GIGA Nas, more info here

30.01.08: GPL Source Package available
Download from here. Anyone please post instructions how to use it at Using GPL source packages.

27.01.08: A CTorrent web interface is now available!
Two great new packages are available in Tinky-LS repository: Enhanced CTorrent and its DCTCS web interface, more info here

23.01.08: Tinky-LS_installation
A tutorial for install Tinky on your NAS without mess (I hope..), more info here

21.01.08: TwonkyMedia installer for Twinky
TwonkyMedia server available for Tinky, more info here

21.01.08: Tinky-LS ipkg repository
The Tinky-LS repository is now available, more info here

20.01.08: Tinky for HDD Dual Nas (Tinky-LS)
The Tinky version for dual hdd nas was finally released, more info here

16.01.08: Look inside and modify the ramdisk
By following this general article you can look inside the ramdisk.

16.01.08: Wiki opened! Bold text

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