Teardown - IPEVO Mini Network Storage Adapter

This adapter basically lets you share your USB HDD over a network. Click here to learn more about the device. This is what the adapter looks like:

Ipevo

Top cover removed

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Looking at the board it looks almost identical to the Digitus DN-7023-1
Here is a link to a basic teardown for a Digitus DN-7023-1 board : http://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/217639

Images of the teardown:

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From the images above we see the following IC's:

  • RDC S3282 S3282LCF0B
  • Winbond W9812G6IH-6 (SDRAM)
  • Macronix MX29LV800CTTC-70G (8Mbit NOR flash)
  • IC + IP101A LF (single-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet transceiver)

Lets look at the chips in more detail:

RDC S3282LCF0B 

150MHz CPU, Intel 486SX instruction set
16MB SDRAM / 1MB NOR Flash
http://www.rdc.com.tw/en/

Winbond W9812G6IH-6 (SDRAM)

The W9812G6IH is a 128M SDRAM
http://www.winbond.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/SpecialtyDRAM/SDRAM/W9812G6IH.htm

Macronix MX29LV800CTTC-70G (8Mbit NOR flash)

The MX29LV800C T/B is a 8-mega bit Flash memory organized as 1M bytes of 8 bits or 512K words of 16 bits.
http://www.macronix.com/QuickPlace/hq/PageLibrary4825740B00298A3B.nsf/h_Index/6F878CF760C559BD482576E00022E6CC/?OpenDocument&EPN=MX29LV800C%20T/B
http://www.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/pdf/143510/MCNIX/MX29LV800CTTC-55Q.html

IC + IP101A LF (single-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet transceiver)

IP101A is an IEEE 802.3/802.3u compliant single-port Fast Ethernet Transceiver for both 100Mbps and 10Mbps operations.
http://www.icplus.com.tw/pp-IP101A.html

What Next?

I'm still trying to figure out a way to access the console on this device. SSH /Telnet dont seem to be enabled on this adapter.