NAS 1500 with bad flash, need some help

[psyfer9983]

Hello. I have a NAS 1500 that was a friends that was not working right. It would work on USB just fine but the network would go out after being on for 2 hours or so and had to power cycle to fix it. So he found a newer firmware for it and it seems that it didn't take all of it. During the update, the unit started to blink "PAUSE" on the LCD screen. He didn't think much of it at first but it was like that for hours. So he held in the button to start the shutdown process. Now the unit will come on as it did before but the user interface that you access through a web browser is not working. He got "404 Not Found" and said "F**K". So he power cycled again, unplugging power for 10 minutes, and still get the 404 error. I think its a Linux OS on the unit. I would like to know if someone out there would know how to send the firmware again to maybe fix it. I am not a Linux person, Windows yes, no to the rest, sorry. I do recall using a push command through CMD to send a modded firmware for my Linksys router (tomato firmware) which was a Linux OS. I thought maybe I could do the same for my NAS. By the way, this is the Galaxy Metal Gear Box NAS and looks like the one on this site:
http://www.omnitech.com.tw/support.php?t=s

The site above had the newer firmware and I have sent them an email about this cause the hardware is I think identical. If I can not fix this, I would probably give this away if some one would pay for the shipping cause I would not have any use for it.

 

[psyfer9983]

update, I found a copy of hyperterminal on the net. I can login with "root" as the user name and it didn't ask for a password. This is what is on the screen.

nas.mydomain.com login: root


BusyBox v1.00-rc3 (2008.05.16-06:12+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

localhost> help


Built-in commands:
-------------------
. : alias bg break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export false
fg hash help jobs kill let local pwd read readonly return set
shift times trap true type ulimit umask unalias unset wait

localhost>





I can also make folders and delete them.

 

[psyfer9983]

Update #2

I think I found the reason why this is not working. I got to looking a the firmware files with notepad and found that the firmware used is not the same as the Galaxy firmware. I still think it can be used on this NAS cause it does look identical to the one on the site where the firmware was downloaded.

 

[psyfer9983]

Update #3

I have started to go down the path of the dark side. Im starting to learn busybox and other Linux OSs. I found a command I think that will let me install the firmware or at lest the user interface. The "install" command looks good but not sure. I cant seem to get my usb flash drive to mount. I have tried this but with no luck.

mkdir /mnt/USB
mount /proc/bus/usb /mnt/usb

Im trying to learn, but need some help.

 

[psyfer9983]

Well, still need some help. I haven't been able to mess with it any more since the power supply is being used for another enclosure. I would still like to get this fixed, but it may end up on eBay.