Slow writing and new firmware for linkstation pro duo

[dave1892]

   

Hello,

 

I have a linkstation pro duo (LS-WTGL/R1-V3 F/W 3.09) and am getting very slow write performance  (a 50MB file takes an hour to write) from Ubuntu. I also have noticed this error

 

CIFS VFS: server of type Samba 3.0.30-1.4.osstech returned unexpected error on SMB posix open, disabling posix open support. Check if server update available.

 

I believe this is a bug which is fixed in samba 3.0.33. Firmware 3.09 is a year old now, so any plans to release a new one soon?

 

thanks

Dave

[PCPiranha]

"Firmware 3.09 is a year old now, so any plans to release a new one soon?"

 

3.10 has been out since 9-8-2009

[dave1892]

   

If you go to the Buffalo downloads page and select linkstation pro duo it says firmware is 3.09. So where is 3.10, and why is not in the obvious place?

[PCPiranha]

This forum is for Buffalo US, unless you tell me otherwise I assume that you are from the US.  I will be happy to help you as much as I can but certain issues you will have to contact your local support for.  I noticed you are in the UK so I would contact local support for an answer as to when it will come out:

 

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/contact/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.buffalo-technology.com/contact/

[dave1892]

   

OK, thanks, although shame they have no email.

 

You couldn't answer my question though, could you please?

[Colin137]

Buffalo's EU division's email support is accessable through this form: http://www.buffalo-technology.com/support/contact/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.buffalo-technology.com/support/contact/

 

I'll forward the request to have 3.10 posted. I'm not really sure what your question is...

[dave1892]

   

Yeah, shame it's a form I mean.

 

My question was,

 

"So where is 3.10, and why is not in the obvious place?"

 

 

What I mean is, presumably the place I was looking at is the most obvious place to look, whether you're in the US or not., and it says 3.09. 

[Colin137]

Ah I see. The EU site, buffalo-technologies.com, has 3.09. The US site, buffalotech.com, has 3.10. I've forwarded your request for 3.10 to be posted on the EU site.

[rvee]

   

bump...

 

Us second class citizens outside the USA are still waiting for 3.10...

[davo]

   

the firmware has nothing to do with the problem of the original poster.

installing 3.10 will not fix his issue (or at least i would be very surprised if it did!)

[greg3576]

Hello,

 

I have exactly the same problem as you.

My OS is also Ubuntu 10.04.

 

 

When I use smbmount or the mounting point of /etc/fstab, the transfer is slow.  (1-2 mb/s).

//X.X.X.X/documents    /media/documents    cifs    credentials=/etc/samba/user,iocharset=utf8    0    0

 

dmesg returns the same message :

CIFS VFS: server X.X.X.X of type Samba 3.0.30-1.4.osstech returned unexpected error on SMB posix open, disabling posix open support. Check if server update available.

 

But when, I navigate from Network in Nautilus, the transfer is more rapidly about x6. (14 mb/s)

 

Anybody have found a solution ?

 

Thanks.

Greg.

 

 

 

[Dustrega]

Unfortunately, we don't support the Linux OS in this forum (if so it's usually very minimal).