It been a while since I've posted here.

I've been running 4.5.3 since last April or May as a server to record up to 4 HD TV channels from my MacMini running EyeTV using afp. Can't wait for V5.. with native afp so I can also backup to it with SuperDuper.

In prep for V5 I see I need to go to 4.7 first. Do I need to upgrade any of these add ons for 4.7. What else do I need to change/do?

 

Here,s the list of packages I have:

avahi-0.6.25-i486-1as.tgz

cpio-2.9-i486-2.txz

dbus-1.2.6-i486-1.tgz

gcc-4.2.4-i486-1.tgz

libcap-2.14-i486-1.tgz

netatalk-2.0.5-i486-1pur.txz

powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz

 

Funny I don't remember putting all those there but that was almost a year ago.

Also here's my go script.

 

#!/bin/bash

# Start the Management Utility

/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

# Start Avahi

echo "Installing Avahi dependencies..."

installpkg /boot/packages/libcap-2.14-i486-1.tgz >null

installpkg /boot/packages/dbus-1.2.6-i486-1.tgz >null

installpkg /boot/packages/gcc-4.2.4-i486-1.tgz >null

installpkg /boot/packages/avahi-0.6.25-i486-1as.tgz >null

 

# Netatalk

echo "Installing netatalk..."

installpkg /boot/packages/netatalk-2.0.5-i486-1pur.txz >null

cp /boot/config/afp/netatalk/* /etc/netatalk/

cp /boot/config/afp/avahi/* /etc/avahi/services/

cp /boot/config/afp/etc/* /etc/

#cp /etc/passwd /boot/config/afp/etc/

echo "Starting AFP daemon..."

/usr/sbin/afpd

 

echo "Starting Avahi daemon..."

# cp /boot/packages/samba.service /etc/avahi/services/

/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon restart >null

 

/boot/unmenu/uu

CTRLALTDEL=YES LOGSAVE=30 installpkg /boot/packages/powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz

echo "/sbin/powerdown" | at 24:00

 

 

Right now I have just 1 Seagate 7200.12 1tb drive that I'm using for EyeTV out of the 4+Parity drives. I keep running out of space and have to quickly watch and delete stuff so I'd like to expand that to use 2 drives. But so far have not been successful with afp. Any suggestions? Or just wait for V5?

Powerdown needs to be tweaked to function properly under the 4.6 or 4.7 series. I reported the issue in the addon's main thread, but I have not seen an official update to it as of yet. It has to do with a change in the status command. Limetech made the proper change in the /root/mdcmd script to be fully backwards compatible, but Powerdown uses /proc/mdcmd directly so it needs to be changed in a similar fashion.