Thecus N4100 Hardware

Default Hardware

CPU

• Intel FW80219M600
• 600Mhz Xscale (ARMv5TE instruction set)
• Upto 1GB of 64bit DDR RAM, and 512MB with 32bit addressing.
• 32KB data/instruction caches
• 64-bit PCI 2.2 Interface

PCI

• 2 x Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
• Intel Corp. GD31244 PCI-X SATA HBA - S-ATA Controller.

Other

• Intel TE28F128 - 16MiB Flash
• TA550C - Serial port controller
• DDR DIMM socket
• Ricoh RS5C372 RTC

Dmesg

This is the dmesg output from Thecus N4100, firmware 1.3.04.

Linux version 2.6.9-n4100 (root@dev_222) (gcc version 3.3.2) #2 Fri Sep 15 16:20:22 CST 2006
CPU: XScale-IOP8032x Family [69052e30] revision 0 (ARMv5TE)
CPU: D undefined 5 cache
CPU: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
CPU: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
Machine: Intel IQ31244
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
  DMA zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:16
  Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0xa0800000,42M mem=256M@0xa0000000
Relocating machine vectors to 0xffff0000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 256MB = 256MB total
Memory: 213760KB available (2010K code, 712K data, 76K init)
Calibrating delay loop... 593.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=2965504)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
Freeing initrd memory: 43008K
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
Enable CCNT succ
Intel IOP3XX DMA Copyright(c) 2004 Intel Corporation
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
JFFS2 version 2.2. (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
Initializing Cryptographic API
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 5 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0xfe800000 (irq = 28) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 43008K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Thecus : Init thecus event proc entry .
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
ipddp.c:v0.01 8/28/97 Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
ipddp0: Appletalk-IP Encap. mode by Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Using anticipatory io scheduler
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   arm4regs  :   341.600 MB/sec
   8regs     :   393.200 MB/sec
   32regs    :   427.600 MB/sec
raid5: using function: 32regs (427.600 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
u32 classifier
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 5
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 76K
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: losetup_file: 129 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 61256 bytes.
cloop: losetup_file: 65 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 19920 bytes.
cloop: losetup_file: 407 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 59488 bytes.
e1000: Unknown parameter `InterruptThrottlingRate'
e1000: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
CFI: cfi_probe_chip qry_present failed
IOP3xx Flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
0: offset=0x0,size=0x20000,blocks=128
Using buffer write method
6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device IOP3xx Flash
Creating 6 MTD partitions on "IOP3xx Flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "RedBoot"
0x00040000-0x00d40000 : "ramdisk"
0x00d40000-0x00ea0000 : "kernel"
0x00ea0000-0x00fc0000 : "user"
0x00fc0000-0x00fe0000 : "RedBoot config"
0x00fe0000-0x01000000 : "FIS directory"
Intel(R) GD31244 SATA driver - version 1.264
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Intel Corporation.
scsi0 : GD31244: Intel Sata Controller Driver Ver 1.264, Max 4 Channels, Max 1 devices per
channel, Max 1 Luns per device
Found SATA Drive Ho:Ch:Tgt:Lun (0:0:0:0)
  Vendor:           Model: WDC WD1600JS-22M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Found SATA Drive Ho:Ch:Tgt:Lun (0:0:0:0)
Thecus Tray: 1, sda
SCSI device sda: 312579696 512-byte hdwr sectors (160041 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, devfs scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
criticalevent_user: disk_add sda
Found SATA Drive Ho:Ch:Tgt:Lun (0:1:0:0)
  Vendor:           Model: SAMSUNG SP2004C   Rev: VM10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Found SATA Drive Ho:Ch:Tgt:Lun (0:1:0:0)
Thecus Tray: 2, sdb
SCSI device sdb: 390721969 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 1, id 0, lun 0, devfs scsi/host0/bus1/target0/lun0
criticalevent_user: disk_add sdb
drivers/scsi/gd31244/drv/gd31244_lld.c#1752:gd31244_queuecommand: queuecommand called for 
drive 2 that is not present.
drivers/scsi/gd31244/drv/gd31244_lld.c#1752:gd31244_queuecommand: queuecommand called for 
drive 3 that is not present.
GD31244: 1 Controllers Detected.
port=0x02,val=0x31
port=0x04,val=0x97
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
DEBUG STOP_ARRAY...
do_md_stop: NO raid ...
md: md1 stopped.
criticalevent_user: raid_create md1
DEBUG STOP_ARRAY...
do_md_stop: NO raid ...
md: md0 stopped.
criticalevent_user: raid_create md0
md: bind<sdb2>
md: bind<sda2>
criticalevent_user: raid_healthy md0
do_md_run: END ...mddev->recovery=32
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky

Compatibility list

Harddrives

Alphabetical list of compatible harddrives. Please include the unique/exact model id.

• Samsung SP2004C 200GB, SATA 3.0 Gbps.
• Samsung SP2504C 250GB, SATA 3.0 Gbps. Don't works here!!!
• Western Digital 160GB, SATA 3.0 Gbps. (WDC WD1600JS-22M)

Official harddrive compatibility list (2006-09-21).