The Dockstar’s aesthetic elegance is in the fact that it’s so simple. If I decide to embed the device and something goes wrong, I’ll have to have access to the serial port in order to debug it.īut, simply having access to the serial port is not enough. This is hardly an ideal solution, and who knows what I’ll be doing with the device in the future. The issue is that they’re not very easy to get to without having to disassemble the device each and every time you need to do a recovery on it. The Seagate Dockstar has a serial port available via three of the pins on the header at the front of the PCB. Read on for my method of adding a serial port to the Dockstar without affecting the look of the device. Just about all of the sites will describe the pins needed to make the connection, however none of them detail how to do it very clearly and none of them address the issue of aesthetics. There are two ways to perform this upgrade however in order to capture syslog output and to be able to get to the bootloader, a serial port is required. Once I saw the article at Hackaday that covers exactly how to replace the OS, I knew I had to do it for myself. I did a lot of research in regards to the capabilities of the Dockstar, including being able to push a customized Linux OS on the device. Ok, so not long after I published the article on the hardware teardown of the Seagate Dockstar, I couldn’t help myself so I started working on things to do with this device.
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