Oeps.. the long awaited Sony Playstation 3 support for CH3SNAS was not functioning. After debugging we found out that the UPnP Server could not be started.

This was fixed quickly and now a new version has been released. UPnP Server working: PlayStation 3 Working (MP3 at least, movies seems to be difficult with PS3 .. )

and euh .. it’s beta .. so no warranty on working and the safety of your data ;-)

update: I see some ’sudden’ disconnects from the UPnP server .. No idea how to trace and to find what is causing the disconnect (I am playing a 80min MP3 file and after about 45 minutes the server disappears .. Damn!)

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Just before the black box is hitting the shelves. 

Today a new firmware was released to some beta users .. 1.03beta 2

update: firmware withdrawn, version 1.03abeta 2 had issue that UPnP server did not start. New Version released!

release notes:

1. Users with RAID1 configuration could loose their data after the reboot of upgrade 1.02 to 1.03beta1. The device was asking if you want to re-format the device. Removing the HDD’s and restart the device empty could save the data, but some users were pig-headed and lost all their data. Some RAID parameter were wrong causing this issue. It’s fixed now.
Password courrupted :  user’s password could get corrupted after changing. We fixed that also.

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Be one of the first CH3SNAS users with the 1.03 new firmware

Conceptronic is announcing NEW features and FIXED features in this 1.03 release

Beta v1.03 was released on  11/16/2007 to a select number of beta testers. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK !!   

 DO BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE APPLYING THIS FIRMWARE ! THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR KEEPING YOUR DATA OR UNFORMATTING THE HARDDRIVES ! DO NOT USE AT PRODUCTION DEVICES !

What was addressed and fixed  

1.Stop at 94% issue.

Due to some various wierd issues some pre-formatted HDD’s are unable to be formatted. Than they stop at 94%

I think this bug finally is fixed

2.NFS Server modules added.

Requested by End-Users: add the NFS modules to apply ‘Fun Plug’ stuff: so we did !

3.PS3 Support.

Requested by End-Users: support for PS3 .. Hey this should work now .. Are you happy?  

4.”Removing files or folders in combination with Windows Vista”
 When using scheduled back-up in combination with Windows Vista it is not possible to remove files or folders in any way afterwards. 

Phew .. again happy!

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK ! [download here]

Many new and other issues will be addressed and released in the 1.03 series.. What kind of new stuff?

• Give you the ability to skip the formatting of a HDD 
• Add more option in the power management like: add 60 and 120 min options
• Use also the IP address as sharename
• Some stuff with anonymous FTP
• Something to be valid with the e-mail system ..

Hey you can add your idea here ..  

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Just received new beta firmware 1.02, with bugfixes addressed in a previous 1.02 release.

http://www.aroundmyroom.com/ch3snas/ch3snas102a.rar

many issues / options resolved / added / fixed ..

among them:
File Transfer tools where able to damage files
Subtitle files are supported through UPnP A/V tool when playing divx
Progress bar with Itunes Server
Admin cannot be used as groupname anymore
wuftpd has been abandoned and pureftpd is now in use (utf-8 support)
Samba 2.2.8a replaced by Samba 3.0.24 (fix vista issue)

Please do not test this firmware in systems where precious data is stored .. use it for test ;-)

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New beta firmware released (version 1.02)  for the Conceptronic CH3SNAS

New stuff:

• Improved Samba
• Pureftpd
• Format bug: allow correct formatting if HDD was already formatted FAT32 or NTFS. Get rid of the 94% format bug ;-)
• Do not allow to have group named admin: dangerous ;-)
• Many other fixes

Download the beta here the beta is withdrawn due to some issues when transferring files through the Network File Sharing (SMB) part .. things got corrupted

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