Networked hard drive

[Anne Wilson]

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