(RESOLVED) patriot javelin S4 ext storage

[steve51]

Hello,
Am I beating a dead dog here?
Briefly I was going to do something about backup storage, I had access to 4, 2TB 2.5" drives. I came across external drive Patriot Javelin at my local RecyclePC. I didn't know anything about this external storage and was not really familiar with what it would take to drive it. So it was take it or leave it.
Back home, I've now made the 4 adapter trays to mount the 2.5" drives into the plastic 3.5" Javelin slide in trays. The drives all connect as indicated by the flashing blue lights on the front of the unit but other than that there's no sign of my system 'seeing' the PJS.
Research shows that the Patriot Javelin S4 (PJS) was designed for MS or Apple systems @2012.
Websearch comes up with this seemingly best approach ... https://github.com/alexeicolin/javelin.
I don't understand whether this would work for me and frankly it's beyond my skill level.
Am I wasting my time with this and should look for another linux friendly external drive to mount my 4, 2 TB drives in?

thanks for comments and suggestions.


My system info

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steve@steve-X570-AORUS-ELITE:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 AORUS ELITE v: -CF
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 AORUS ELITE v: x.x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F32
    date: 01/18/2021
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
    rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2389 high: 4189 min/max: 2200/3600 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 1971 2: 2564 3: 1861 4: 1863 5: 2180 6: 2181 7: 4018 8: 2175
    9: 2198 10: 2195 11: 2192 12: 2191 13: 2119 14: 2150 15: 4189 16: 2183
    bogomips: 114982
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.0
  Device-2: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i2 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 5-2:2
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa gpu: amdgpu resolution:
    1: 1920x1200~60Hz 2: 1680x1050~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (navi10 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42
  5.15.0-100-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0a:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.4
  Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i2 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 5-2:2
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-100-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel
    port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.99 TiB used: 362.26 GiB (17.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP600 size: 931.51 GiB
    temp: 31.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD360ADFD-00NLR5
    size: 34.48 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1500AHFD-00RAR5
    size: 139.74 GiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: HD103UJ size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 84.05 GiB used: 55.51 GiB (66.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 290.4 MiB used: 7.3 MiB (2.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.0 C mobo: 24.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 859
Info:
  Processes: 389 Uptime: 25m Memory: 31.28 GiB used: 3.13 GiB (10.0%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2866 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

[coffee412]

This appears to be a stand alone network storage type enclosure. USB also available. You will need the user manual on that. Try connecting it to your router with a network cable and then use your browser to point it to its ip address it gets from the router.

This is where the user guide will come in handy.

As for USB connections and such just to your computer you may have to flip some switches on it or whatever to configure it. Who knows.

Try the network cable and then log into your router and see if it gets an ip address. Then point your browser to it.

Good Luck.

[steve51]

Thanks coffee412 for the heads up.
I downloaded a copy of the PJS manual and it’s sort of helpful. Note there is no specific IP address listed anywhere on the unit. The user manual directed me to WebPASM which reiterated most of what was in the manual. I didn’t get the cd that was originally supplied with the unit which probably wouldn’t have helped since it was for Windows or Apple applications..
Hooked the PJS ethernet cable to my T-Mobile router/modem. Went into my internet provider T-mobile account to see find an IP address – nothing on the account page. However from my records I pulled up the Gateway ‘name plate’ info for my TM r/m. Looking on line at a T-Mobile community troubleshooting page it seems that all gateway r/ms IPs are 198.162.12.1 .
Here’s a link to that page discussion.... https://community.t-mobile.com/troubles ... sses-41548

It seems that TM has some unhappy customers regarding IP addresses....and for my issue coffee412 it would seem that the IP address approach is a no go??
Any suggestions for alternate 4 bay external hard drive cases to use for storage?

Thanks

[coffee412]

Any suggestions for alternate 4 bay external hard drive cases to use for storage?

Pretty much all that box is, is a small computer with some software and drives in it. So, You can take an inexpensive computer and load it up with some hard drives. Just put the computer on your local network and load linux on it. Then use something like SAMBA (if you need windows access to it) or NFS (for linux access only) to share out the storage and backup to it.

You can also grab an inexpensive external box that just does jobd (just a bunch of disks) and hook that up via USB or Network (depending on what it offers) and use that with mdadm to raid some or all the drives for redundancy. I have a "Probox" which has 4 bays in it for drives that I have hooked up to my computer via USB3. I used mdadm to setup a couple of mirrored raids in it for backing up. The box is pretty much just some generic box. Nothing special.

I did try some of the fancier external boxes with proprietary software (icy dock I think it was) but found out it was limited in that it would not backup dot files (.* , Like .thunderbird ect..) and promptly returned it.

[steve51]

Thanks coffe412,
Yes think going with a different external box would be best.
The recyclePC place is good to use but you really have to know what's what and you never know what they may have.
Cheers for the info.