Re: Networked hard drive

[Bryan Hepworth <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Wendel wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I've bought a drive with usb and network connection.  I used the usb 
> > to quickly transfer a large quantity of data, but intended putting it 
> > onto the network after that.  The blurb on the box said it would just 
> > pick an ip by dhcp.  However, it seems to me that I need to know 
> > something about it in order to mount it, and I've got a total blank 
> > on where to go next.  Nothing appears in /var/log/messages.
> >
> > I've told the router to reserve an address for it and made an entry 
> > in /etc/hosts.  Since I can't see any sign of it being recognised I 
> > haven't a clue how to mount it.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Could you tell us the brand/model of the disk? At least we'll know 
> what to avoid buying.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
Have a look in dmesg and see what that says when you plug & unplug..I 
have a couple of maxtors that are flakey like that! I've since moved on 
from usb to the arm type drives, same scenario but they are atleast 
hackable to do what you want with!

Bryan