On Thursday 15 March 2007, Bryan Hepworth wrote: > 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.. Nothing at all :-( > 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! > Maybe I've made one big mistake with this. Anne
