This nas is an interesting device. I recently got myself one...I wanted a buffalo nas but the shop I happened to go to just didnt have one.
This device runs a Linux OS, has a 1ghz processor and 256mb ram, 2 single TB drives, a usb port, and a gigabit lan port.
Its hackable, you can get at the system either by dumping the configuration file thru its web interface, or by mounting both drives as a Raid 0.
The web interface spits out a tar.gz of a dump it will create, when asked for.
iomega gives you the firmware update, or the source of the system if you register on their support page. The update "firmware" is assumably the same as a dump of the / partition without /media. the dump contains a "config" folder where sshd haas been disabled, the uncommenting of a few lines in sshd_config is easy enough.
I repackaged as a tar.gz, the update html page however dosnt want to accept my update...."unrecognised package". The firmware update is packaged as a .tgz compressed file....I cant seem to open it just yet.
Gunzip dosnt recognize the zip format, and renaming to tar.gz file dosnt do the trick either.
What have I learned from this?
I would like to assume that this device runs a slackware variant. The filesystem has configs for apt. It is capable of handling bluetooth.
Next steps?
Im going to get the source code for this device, tho I'm at a loss for words when trying to imagine how I will compile the source, as this device (theoretically) can handle a console port, but I dont feel like soldering onto the mainboard just yet, and have no real way of accessing the command line other then by mounting the raid on a linux device...and physically editing the system there.
more on this later
--EDIT--
I hadn't thought about cross compiling for an ARM processor...not now tho, I will have to make due with just manually mounting the raid and editing there...:(
while I'm at it tho, I may make some modifications to the update options/packaging system...we'll see.
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