Netgear SC101 any one using one?

mindwave at cfl.rr.com mindwave at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jul 18 17:23:17 UTC 2006


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 at 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 at redhat.com> 

> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:17 -0400, mindwave at 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 
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