<BODY>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@cymulacrum.net> 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@redhat.com> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:17 -0400, mindwave@cfl.rr.com 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 > email: chongym@cymulacrum.net > web: http://cymulacrum.net > pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc > > "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance > appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le > monde." > -- Louis Pasteur > </BODY>