On Thursday 15 March 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > It is probably time to dig out the CD that came with the drive, and > read the manual. No CD - and no manual! > But looking at the reviews, Linux will probably > only be able to use it as a USB drive, and not a network drive. I > find it interesting that only one machine can have write access at a > time. > > I don't think you screwed too badly - the firmware is probably not > on the drive, so the unit should still work. You may be limited to > accessing the VFAT partition over the network from Windows, and you > may end up having to make the VFAT partition the first partition. (I > read that for MAC access, you need to use a FAT32 partition, and not > a NTFS partition.) But unless someone decides to create a Linux > driver for it, you are probably not going to be able to do network > access from Linux. > It's not a waste of money. It does work as a usb drive, and I can samba-share it, I would think - though I'll have to check that. If not, being usb, we can physically move it around. Serves me right. I looked briefly at a drive that said it was set up to be used as NAS, but I feared having to spend a lot of time to get it to work with linux. It never occurred to me that this would be at least as bad :-) Ah well - lessons learned. Anne
