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Efika 5200B Project
EXAMPLE - KuroBox competitor using 2.5" diskin category Networking, Routing & Storage
proposed by Neko on 28th January 2006 (accepted on 28th January 2006)
Developers: Matt Sealey, Raquel and Bill, Matt Sealey (Test Account)
Project Summary
KuroBox competitor using 2.5" disk, allowing NAS solutions (obvious application) but also all the things people use KuroBox to do, and more due to greater expansion potential.Many people use KuroBox to store media files and MP3 and then stream to a PC; EFIKA has audio ports so it would not be required to have a seperate computer to output to a speaker set or hi-fi amplifier.
For example: If you play music all day using your computer and you then need to install new hardware or clean it for dust, you will know how unnerving the silence is - EFIKA is the NAS solution for this :)
Project Blog Entries
April is a rainy month.
This is a test of the new Project Groups feature. With this, developers can submit a project through a "project leader" and have affiliated developers who can edit and add blog posts, and eventually access all other features (including write access to the source code repositories).
The framework for adding affiliates/friends to your project will be up later, as it needs a lot of testing. If anyone wants to be grouped up RIGHT NOW, please contact Matt (matt@genesi-usa.com) and he'll be happy to help.
Investigated iSCSI framework today, found that it does not compile properly by default.
Today I made a moulded plastic for the EFIKA in order to encase it. It is two shells which are joined by 4 screws. It has to sit flat on a desk now with rubber feet as I did not design in a "stand" for vertical operation yet.
There is a metal RF shield which sits inside and also gives the chassis a little more stability. All the ports are exposed and there is a hole for the disk and power LED. For now the power switch is a lead which dangles out of the chassis to a momentary switch but it suffices for a prototype.
First blog entry!
The project started today and I decided to ship a basic Gentoo Linux distribution on it. Users will have to set up a TFTP server to boot the system initially but I will provide an install kernel which can pull the data it requies (squashfs root) across to the NAS disk, and set it up as a basic no-frills NAS.
For other hacking, that is left up to the user :)