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[mindwave]

Title says it all.

I have a Netgear SC101 configured in a RAID that I setup and work with from my xp box.

currently netgear doesnt offer linux drivers, but i havent tried to use the windows install cd on X4 yet, just wondering if anyone else can access this device under X4?

for those that dont know this is a REALLY inexpensive NAS

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php

that works VERY well and has a LOT of functionality, but has its own proprietary method of communications.

thanks

j

[shengchieh]

bad news

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101577.asp

Also search Xandros forums for SC101. You're the first.

I googled for [SC101 linux]. You're welcomed to surf thru

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SC101+linux&btnG=Google+Search

but I wouldn't put much hope in it.

Sheng-Chieh
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[mindwave]

yeah i'd seen all that, but most of that info is over a year old, thats almost how long ive had mine i just figured maybe someone wouyld have been poking away at it since then.

j

[shengchieh]

Surf around. Go to search engines and type

SC101 linux

and see what you find. Btw, you are unlikely to
find the latest among Xandros users. Usually,
Fedora and Gentoo folks are the "pioneers" (IMHO).
So also ask in their forums.

Sheng-Chieh
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[mindwave]

yup, been there, done that as well.

just thought since i was new to X i'd try here as well.

ive already got FC5 and MDK10.1 installed on other pc's

j

[Brian Wallen]

mindwave et al

A year later and I had the same attraction to the SC101 as you. Here are my notes for the original SC101 and the new turbo version that mounts SATA drives and has Gigabit Ethernet:

First Impressions of Netgear SC101 Network Attached Storage Device

The Netgear SC101 is a self-powered chassis that can accommodate two PATA harddrives and attach them to a network with a standard RJ45 Ethernet 10/100 connection, requiring no host system to communicate with the network, only a running DHCP server on the network. Software is bundled that appears to provide some RAID functions with two drives installed.

Since I run different versions of Linux, W2k and OS X, I was interested in buying an inexpensive NAS device that could be connected on a local LAN and be accessible to all of these hosts. The Netgear SC101 doesn't appear to be a candidate. Excerpts shown below are from the PDF file of its manual.

• This manual describes the installation and use of the SC101 for operation with a Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2), Windows® 2000 SP4, Windows® 2003 Server system.

Initially, I thought that the Windows requirement might apply to just the backup application or to a RAID function, but on closer reading, it appears to apply to any client that is reading or writing to the device.

• Your PC must be connected to the same network as the Storage Central unit during the software installation. You can connect the PC via Ethernet, or if you have a wireless network, your PC can be connected to the network wirelessly.
• You will need to install this software on each PC that will access the Storage Central.

The upgraded SC101T sports a new external box, Gigabit Ethernet capability, ability to mount SATA drives and possibly updated SmartSync software that among other things provides mirrored RAID. It still lists W2k or XP as requirements.

Unless someone here has discovered that Crossover will stand in for the MS OS requirements, these boxes are distinctly uninteresting to cross-platform users. The only possibility I could think of was to run a Windows machine with the Netgear chassis defined as a share on the Windows machine, but then it might be more effective to attach an external (or internal) RAID array to the "server" machine.
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