mss122_openmss2 firmware released (24. July 2005)

• Added ipkg (you can install packages remote now)
• setup a real init.d enviroment
• added package dp500serv and busybox to ipkg.openmss.org
• moved telnet init stuff to opt so that telnet can be disabled

You can read more here.
- Jon

openmss.org released (23. July 2005)
In hope that we can build a large community around the MSS, I have created our own domain for this project. The old page have been split into different sections now…
- Jon

KiSS dp500serv ported to OpenMSS (18. July 2005)
I have ported and corrected a few bugs enabling this streaming service to run on the MSS. I’m currently using it myself for my DP-558 You can find more information in the forum.
- Jon

My new Maxtor Shared Storage (4. May 2005):
I got my MSS today. The first thing I did, was of course to open it up and look at the circuit board. I quickly found a interesting 4 pin connector (J10) that I verified with a multimeter to contain GND and 3 pins with 3v. After that I made a serial connector and got nice access to the boot loader (CFE) and could see kernel messages and eventually get access to the shell

The root filesystem is stored on the start of the harddrive, so it should be pretty safe to work with that as long as you make a backup of that partition (/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1). It’s a CramFS image. The shared volume itself is stored on a reiserfs partition on a Linux software raid device.
- Jon