RE: LaCie SilverScreen Runs Linux, But No Source

RE: LaCie SilverScreen Runs Linux, But No Source

[Sid Boyce]

In their comapany blurb to investors, they also claim "in-house approach 
to R&D and design", "The design of most product components", including 
"control software". No mention is made of Linux and an equally hard rub, 
it's only supposed to talk to Windows and Mac.
Regards
Sid.
-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

LaCie Silverscreen Runs Linux, But No Source

[Michael Freeman]

The LaCie Silverscreen external hard drive / media player contains a
~4 MByte ROMFS image that has a gzipped Linux kernel, Busybox, and a
few other assorted things.  However, LaCie makes no mention of using
GPLed software, nor do they offer any source code for download.  Has
anyone ever noticed this before (and, if so, what's the status on
source)?
You can download this firmware from
http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/SilverScreen.zip -- the file
called romfs.bin is a plain romfs volume.  I successfully mounted it
using Knoppix and was able to browse the contents of the image.

Please CC me directly, because I'm not subscribed to this list. 

I apologize if this was discovered before, but my archive searches
found no reference.

(if I had the source, I'd probably buy one of these things).

--Michael L. Freeman