Right,
I am currently doing that. My quest is to turn this into a typical SAN/NAS thats accessible from any Linux pc.
Seems to me that if it uses an IP and uses drivers, there must be a way.
Even if its installing the win drivers in a situation like NDISWRAPPER.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chong Yu Meng <chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:15 pm
Subject: Re: Netgear SC101 any one using one?
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:17 -0400, mindwave@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I bought mine about 6 months ago and netgear said then that they MAY
> > be working on mac/linux drivers, but nothing yet.
> >
> >
> >
> > this is a NAS device that allows for RAIDING drives and appears
> to be
> > using a proprietary formatting and a client side applet for
> accessing.>
> Hi J (interesting name)
>
> The NetGear SC101 uses a proprietary Storage Area Networking protocol
> from Zetera called Z-SAN (see:
> http://www.zetera.com/newsevents/mediacoverage/oct05.html). It appears
> that it only supports Windows (for the moment) and requires each
> Windowssystem to install a driver and client software:
>
> "To access the SC101, you need to install a driver and the Storage
> Central Manager software. Once the driver is installed on your PC, the
> Storage Central Manager scans your local network and finds your
> StorageCentral device. " -
> http://storage.webbuyersguide.com/reviews/2925-wbgStorage_reviews.html
>
> If you happen to have a Windows PC handy, you may want to install the
> client software and driver on it and make it available on the
> network as
> a shared drive from the Windows PC. That may make it accessible to
> Linuxsystems. Just a suggestion (the paint fumes in my room may be
> making me
> a little incoherent).
>
>
> --
> Pascal Chong
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