[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[Jim Lynch]

Thanks to all who suggested solutions.  I think I've got a bum unit.  
lsusb finds it, but the scsi emulation times out and gets other nasty 
errors.  I tried it on XpPro and it had problems too.   I have a Maxtor 
external drive that works on everything.  The other beast didn't work on 
SUse 2.4 or 2.6 kernels, or debian 2.4 or 2.6 kernels on 4 different 
systems, including two laptops.  Guess I'll toss it in the box to be 
sold at the next flea market.

Jim.
H. A. Story wrote:

>While I have not used this brand.  I have almost figured out these 
>things.  You need to make sure that the device supports Mass Storage.  
>That maybe the biggest key.  Another is that windows will only need a 
>drive if it is windows 98/ME. 
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>I got this from some place on the web.  I forget where.  The website 
>went so far as to configure Linux to auto-mount once it saw the device 
>plugged in.  I was not interested in that.  Also, be aware if you are 
>using kernel 2.6.XXX. It will make the SCSI devices as needed.  I think 
>it is udev.  Will drive you crazy when trying to setup and find the 
>device if it is not working right. with that said you should be able to 
>do the following.
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>1. Turn on device.  Once it is up plug into the USB port.
>2. Do lsusb   ( You may need to be root.)  This will let you know if USB 
>found it.
>3. Find which SCSI device it got mapped too.  Use fdisk -l /dev/sda.
>    If you get some info back you found it.  If not try moving to /dev/sdb.
>
>That is the short of it.  you can try Googlein Linux mass storage usb.  
>I have not tried a firewire device yet.
>
>Adrin
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>Jim Lynch wrote:
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>>I bought an Acomdata hard drive enclosure at Compusa the other day.  
>>Linux doesn't detect it.  It's a usb/firewire controller.  There's an 
>>enclosed driver for Windows.  Anyone have any luck making one of these 
>>play with Linux?  It's an enclosure that you add your own hard drive to.
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>>Jim.
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