I use my “WD mycloud ex2 ultra” with Debian stretch and OMV 4.x.
Till of two things the System run perfect with all Plugins OOTB.
“shutdown -h now” does not shut off the hole system
Fan can’t be configured - it run all the time with same speed.
My System:
cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.0-rc6 (root@build-server) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro
5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)) #2 SMP Mon Jan 8 13:13:42 +05 2018
cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
Hardware : Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
I don’t have the “fan_control” tool from the original WD System, I think with this I can control my internal fan. If anyone can send me this file, I think this will help.
Otherwise I check " TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt" if this is the right way to control this, any other solution for this?
If more information is need give me some feedback.
I have a gen 1 mycloud 4tb.
I installed DSM on it, using the instructions in this thread.
Seems to be working except when I create an iscsi share it just says offline.
Is iSCSI suppsoed to work on dsm?
Is there a fix?
I don’t see any errors in the log, when creating the iscsi,
The lun appears to be created correctly,
Then the target can be created too, but after creating the target, the target says offline.
Armbian officially support Helios4 which have similar SoC like wdmc gen2, and there is prebuild OS Image.
How can I run this image on wdmc gen2 ?
Thanks.
@wwwlenovo, you need to use our kernel and ramdisk.
Or use my dtb file for build your own kernel.
uBoot on our device not support params from armbianEnv.txt
But you still can use rootfs.
But why you need it? Armbian - is a same Debian (or ubuntu) but with custom repository for support some mini-pc’s (That you can add manually).
@Fox_exe Hello, I just started getting into this whole topic a few days ago. I read almost this entire article and felt engaged to try out the DSM6 file on my EX2 Ultra. I know that you said, there where issues with the kernel but I choosed to try it out. It worked very nice for about 24 hours but then crashed almost completely, I was able to use your guide to go back to the WD software and tried installing it again. It sadly crashed again 24 hours later. Bizzarely the file system was alright both times. The file sharing worked. I just couldn’t get back onto the webpage.
This time, the ssh and telnet weren’t activated for whatever reason, so i tried pulling out the HDDs and resetting with the button on the back. I managed to get back onto the DSM installation page but then made a dumb decision. I tried to install your “work in progress” DSM file and bricked the whole system. After several reset tries, it wouln’t even recieve an IP-adress from my dhcp-server.
I am seriously worried about the whole situation and decided to write this text. In hope you would read it and might write me back. Maby you have got some ideas to solve this stupidity of mine.
Hello Guys i flasht the Firmware-debian-linux-4.14.4.bin from fox on my ext2 ultra now i would go back to original fw. I Tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtdblk1 but nothing happens, i also tried to push the reset while booting. The System only boot in telnet or debian. If i go to the browser and add the ip nothing happens.
Fox told me to trie this command,
I tried it in telnet and ssh its the same result;
root@wdmc:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtdblk1
dd: writing to ‘/dev/mtdblk1’: No space left on device
20481+0 records in
20480+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.0815535 s, 129 MB/s
I also tried this guide here;
My Cloud EX2 Ultra (same as My Cloud Mirror Gen 2)
With USB attached, depress the reset button with a tooth pick and apply power to the My Cloud
Hold the reset button for forty seconds and then release.
Locate the new IP address, I use “Advanced IP Scanner”.
Browse to the new IP address, and the “Recovery Mode” WebIU will display
Upload the correct firmware from Western Digital.
After it reboots, scan for new IP address again and login by browser.
i flashed my my cloud with synolgy and now i can not access the web-board with a desktop but only with the mobile version. Also sometime it just says “operation failed” without any hint what failed. I tried to enable ssh to go back to original but also this fails. Is there anything i can do?
Would it possible to install ubuntu server headless on the device and would it recognize it should use the hard drives to run? And if this should work (seen from the drivers) is it armhf or arm64. (I have a mycloud mirror gen2)
Yes i saw this but the problem is i have no ssh (telnet) access. So would it possible to just make this with the HDD. Would it boot from the HDD or the corrupted DSM on the flash?
Thanks for your support and your great project Fox
