Is QNAP still supported?

[Jerryacg]

As there has been no input from Progressive for the last few weeks, does anyone know if QNAP is still officially supported.

[Fifer]

Well, the Qnap version of Slimserver is still up to date and the last plug-ins update was posted only three weeks ago, so I wouldn't panic just yet. I had an email from Paul just the other day (not Qnap related) so he's very much still around at Progressive. Have you tried contacting him through the on-line support function on the Cooltopia website?

[happyfishman]

I was starting to wonder too... I haven't yet made the leap to SS6.5 because of the possible memory issues (and and a disasterous wireless router failure, but that's another story), but I would like a little reassurance that we will be able to operate our squeezeboxes at the same or better level of functionality with future SS updates, though.

That said, I'm not overly concerned about the silence from Paul/Progressive... yet...

[Seineseeker]

Well its been a few weeks without a word. And there's the memory issue, the disk spinning down issue, not to mention the patch to use slave drives.

Either Paul is busy working on these issues, or Progressive have pulled the plug on the QNAP for SS! Let's hope its the former.

[Jerryacg]

As there has been no input from Progressive for the last few weeks, does anyone know if QNAP is still officially supported.

So, to respond to my own question ... Considering the lack of response from Progresive, It would appear that the answer is No. I would now, respectfully request that Progressive post a statement on the forum regarding the support issue. True, the latest SS is on the upgrade page, but it dosn't work. This was acknowledged by Prog at the end of last month. If, as suggested a fix is being worked on, can someone from Progressive take a minute to post a message letting us know.

[Fifer]

So, to respond to my own question ... Considering the lack of response from Progresive, It would appear that the answer is No. I would now, respectfully request that Progressive post a statement on the forum regarding the support issue. True, the latest SS is on the upgrade page, but it dosn't work. This was acknowledged by Prog at the end of last month. If, as suggested a fix is being worked on, can someone from Progressive take a minute to post a message letting us know.

What doesn't work in the latest SS? Mine's ok.

[Seineseeker]

Well lets not jump to conclusions. They are still selling QNAPs with SS installed for one thing. I hope the patch for the slave appears at some point, otherwise I am scuppered when my 300GB is full!!! I am still using 6.3 and it all works very nicely for now.

[Heuer]

Mine works with 6.5. Disk spin down remains erratic but that is the only problem - and do I care - no!

Any problems with 6.5 (slow browser) are also apparent on my ReadyNAS NV and in fact the TS-101 is slightly quicker even though the NV has 1Gb of memory (hint: slow browser response may not be memory related). Paul has a business to run, we had an update three weeks ago so I think we are being a bit naive to expect they regularly read these forums. They are also dependant on the manufactuer in Taiwan or wherever so delays are to be expected.

Paul has my order for a Transporter so he has a financial incentive to continue support but I am not about to hassle him for it even though I am looking forward to getting it.

I have to admit the Infrant guys get involved on their forum but despite many posts they are no further forward in resolving the SS 6.5 issues than Qnap.

[Paul_B]

Slimserver 6.5 is usable on QNAP, the only issue is using the web interface. I have just purchased a 1.5GHz VIA based system with 1GB memory running Windows 2003 and SS6.5 and watching the CPU activity and performance stats from the SS the web browsing interface takes 0.5 seconds to complete and CPU usage hits 100% for the same period. So no surprise a 233MHz system with 64MB takes longer.

As for disk spin down I am not convinced this is solely down to SS. My disk spindown has been very erratic since I first bought the QNAP and running SS < 6.3. Only way to work out what is causing this is a better event log on the QNAP where diagnostic logging can be increased.

[Jerryacg]

As there has been no input from Progressive for the last few weeks, does anyone know if QNAP is still officially supported.

.... Ditto