Network Storage
Jun. 23rd, 2007 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbBought one of these.
Configured it to be visible on the home network and I could talk to its management interface which said there was no disk recognised. Took the disk out and connected it to the computer - it does still work. Took the LanDisk back to Maplin and swapped it for another one. Behaves the same way. Filled in "Submit a question" form on Maplin web site, and prepared to wait a few days for an answer. Other suggestions welcomed ("give up buying cheap stuff from Maplin" being one obvious one).
(It does work as a USB external disk, but not a removeable one - plugging in the USB cable while the external disk is on triggers an immediate reboot. But the point of buying it was to have stuff visible to any of the computers, and in particular have MP3s on a Samba share visible to Pam's internet radio when all the PCs are off.)
Configured it to be visible on the home network and I could talk to its management interface which said there was no disk recognised. Took the disk out and connected it to the computer - it does still work. Took the LanDisk back to Maplin and swapped it for another one. Behaves the same way. Filled in "Submit a question" form on Maplin web site, and prepared to wait a few days for an answer. Other suggestions welcomed ("give up buying cheap stuff from Maplin" being one obvious one).
(It does work as a USB external disk, but not a removeable one - plugging in the USB cable while the external disk is on triggers an immediate reboot. But the point of buying it was to have stuff visible to any of the computers, and in particular have MP3s on a Samba share visible to Pam's internet radio when all the PCs are off.)
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Date: 2007-06-23 09:57 am (UTC)But I should mention that because the LAN drive I use (not Landisk, a cheap one I got on eBay) had annoying fan noise I got a Landisk when they were on special offer and gave it a try... and got nowhere because it kept losing settings. Took it back and got another... which had the same problem. Took that back and got a refund. I'm now using the one I originally bought with the front panel (containing the fans) removed. It doesn't get warm anyway, presumably because the drive is only active for a few minutes at a time and without the front panel air circulates pretty well...
The odd part of this is that as far as I could tell the landisks have exactly the same chip set as the drive I'm using.
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Date: 2007-06-23 11:10 am (UTC)Yes, did that.
No fan noise on this one, just a chunky aluminium case, but it doesn't seem to get too warm.
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Date: 2007-06-23 06:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-24 07:46 am (UTC)