Picked up one of these heavily discounted, ?EUR30. Telnet & root access are enabled by default:
Linux version 2.6.15 (root@parus-VirtualBox) (gcc version 3.4.4) #142 Wed Jun 27 16:00:26 CST 2012
Processor : FA526id(wb) rev 1 (v4l)
BogoMIPS : 230.19
Features : swp half
CPU implementer : 0x66
CPU architecture: 4
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x526
CPU revision : 1
Cache type : write-back
Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown : format B
Cache format : Harvard
I size : 16384
I assoc : 2
I line length : 16
I sets : 512
D size : 8192
D assoc : 2
D line length : 16
D sets : 256
Hardware : GeminiA
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
Does anyone have experience of these? First job is to set it DVD region-free.
SE-208BW external DVD writer / NAS / WAP / DLNA Server
Re: SE-208BW external DVD writer / NAS / WAP / DLNA Server
Interesting device; indeed it is currently (widely) available for as little as 25 EUR.
Seems to be based on Gemini Storlink SoC (SL2312/SL3516 ?). Hardware-wise, it may be somehow outdated, though.. Can you share some more info (cat /proc/meminfo, cat /proc/mounts, dmesg etc.)? I guess, on that price, it may still have quite a lot of potential as an router/AP/USB NAS/DVD+-RW combo package (equipped with both USB host & USB OTG interfaces - not exactly an usual combination, especially w/ DVD+-RW drive add on).
BTW, open source release for SE-208BW (product of Samsung & Toshiba join venture) is available here: http://www.tsstodd.com/totalview/opensource.asp (direct link: http://www.tsstodd.com/Application/open ... 531.tar.gz).
Seems to be based on Gemini Storlink SoC (SL2312/SL3516 ?). Hardware-wise, it may be somehow outdated, though.. Can you share some more info (cat /proc/meminfo, cat /proc/mounts, dmesg etc.)? I guess, on that price, it may still have quite a lot of potential as an router/AP/USB NAS/DVD+-RW combo package (equipped with both USB host & USB OTG interfaces - not exactly an usual combination, especially w/ DVD+-RW drive add on).
BTW, open source release for SE-208BW (product of Samsung & Toshiba join venture) is available here: http://www.tsstodd.com/totalview/opensource.asp (direct link: http://www.tsstodd.com/Application/open ... 531.tar.gz).
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Re: SE-208BW external DVD writer / NAS / WAP / DLNA Server
Hi there, I've created a website with various hacks and a firmware for the SE208BW that can be found at this url:
https://sites.google.com/site/tssthacks/
This firmware that I called SuperHub has new functions and updated programs, however due to the small amount of flash memory allocated to the system gzipped ramdisk (13 mbytes) I am encountering some problems while adding new files to the firmware of the se208bw. I am thinking of moving some big files, like the libav codec (4.6 mbytes) in the initramfs of the kernel to save some space. I am also thinking of putting some files in the hddapp flash partition. However I can't find a way to do this because the hddapp partition is in a weird format: it has a lot of empty (ff) spaces between strange data when viewed with a hex editor and I cannot find a bzip or gzip header. Some help?
You can download the full backup of the flash memory at this URL:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/582 ... kup.tar.gz
You could also just dd the contents of your mtd blocks on a USB drive.
I am also interested in finding a way to resize the default size of the mtd blocks, however I don't know how can I do that without bricking the SE208BW. I know that I should edit something inside the redboot bootloader and in the kernel's configuration, but I don't know what. I also know that to edit the redboot configuration I need to telnet into some ip address when the device turns on but I don't know what is that address, and I can't read it using the fconfig package from the ipkg.nslu2-linux.org ipkg feed. It keeps giving me some sort of key1 error! Again, could please somebody help me?
Thanks.
Btw sbav1, I have posted all of the cats of this device on my website at this url:
https://sites.google.com/site/tssthacks ... evice/cats
Edit: I've figured it out, it turns out there isn't a haddapp partition, when I clone the mtd of the hddapp I'm actually cloning the last two sections of the flash memory (vctl and curconf) and the ffff spaces are just the unused blocks between the partitions.
But I still can't figure out how to telnet into redboot!
Edit 2: I figured it out (again): the bootloader used in the SE208BW is a custom Cortina Systems bootloader (cs-boot) and the name of the bootloader mtd partition was not changed probably due to laziness on behalf of the Samsung developers
. The bootloader sources aren't included in the open source package in the tsstodd website, but after a quick search I found this: http://www.astel.co.kr/opensource/LT_LICENSE.txt
This text file is the description of the open source tarball of all the DVR recorders created by this company: surprisingly, the programs included in the systems of these DVR recorders are the same ones that are included in the SE208BW's system (cs-boot, cdrecord, obviously busybox and others). Here's the massive tarball with the sources: http://www.astel.co.kr/opensource/LICENSE.tar.gz
Daniil Gentili
Bye!
https://sites.google.com/site/tssthacks/
This firmware that I called SuperHub has new functions and updated programs, however due to the small amount of flash memory allocated to the system gzipped ramdisk (13 mbytes) I am encountering some problems while adding new files to the firmware of the se208bw. I am thinking of moving some big files, like the libav codec (4.6 mbytes) in the initramfs of the kernel to save some space. I am also thinking of putting some files in the hddapp flash partition. However I can't find a way to do this because the hddapp partition is in a weird format: it has a lot of empty (ff) spaces between strange data when viewed with a hex editor and I cannot find a bzip or gzip header. Some help?
You can download the full backup of the flash memory at this URL:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/582 ... kup.tar.gz
You could also just dd the contents of your mtd blocks on a USB drive.
I am also interested in finding a way to resize the default size of the mtd blocks, however I don't know how can I do that without bricking the SE208BW. I know that I should edit something inside the redboot bootloader and in the kernel's configuration, but I don't know what. I also know that to edit the redboot configuration I need to telnet into some ip address when the device turns on but I don't know what is that address, and I can't read it using the fconfig package from the ipkg.nslu2-linux.org ipkg feed. It keeps giving me some sort of key1 error! Again, could please somebody help me?
Thanks.
Btw sbav1, I have posted all of the cats of this device on my website at this url:
https://sites.google.com/site/tssthacks ... evice/cats
Edit: I've figured it out, it turns out there isn't a haddapp partition, when I clone the mtd of the hddapp I'm actually cloning the last two sections of the flash memory (vctl and curconf) and the ffff spaces are just the unused blocks between the partitions.
But I still can't figure out how to telnet into redboot!
Edit 2: I figured it out (again): the bootloader used in the SE208BW is a custom Cortina Systems bootloader (cs-boot) and the name of the bootloader mtd partition was not changed probably due to laziness on behalf of the Samsung developers
. The bootloader sources aren't included in the open source package in the tsstodd website, but after a quick search I found this: http://www.astel.co.kr/opensource/LT_LICENSE.txtThis text file is the description of the open source tarball of all the DVR recorders created by this company: surprisingly, the programs included in the systems of these DVR recorders are the same ones that are included in the SE208BW's system (cs-boot, cdrecord, obviously busybox and others). Here's the massive tarball with the sources: http://www.astel.co.kr/opensource/LICENSE.tar.gz
Daniil Gentili
Bye!