Netgear SC101 San network device

totalsolutions

Anyone have one of these and can offer advice on attaching the unit via the supplied SCM utility, its a 300Gb drive and shows as 0Gb free and no drives available so no attachment is possible. During a SCM software reinstall the drive is visible together with the correct share name, entering the password, it just disappears with no drives available message.

TIA

diable

It seems the software supplied is a bit of a pain, scroll down halfway to Software and Features http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/storage/netgear-sc101.html as it may help you out.

Lawbag_2

This unit when it works is brilliant, but other than that its a real pig of device...

bob_a_builder

It seems the software supplied is a bit of a pain

It certainly used to be, but its a lot better now

Is this a new box, if not then worth upgrading to the latest f/w & software via netgear site, but since it usually offers to do that whenever you run the storage central manager anyway , you've probably already done that.

IDE or later SATA version ? : I have IDE one, I very vaguely remember it being a bit picky about the drive or drive manufacturer - might be wrong

There used to be a very good forum on the netgear site about the unit in the early days with lots of fixes and workarounds, but the unit did have a very bad rep at that time and Netgear took all that info down, some has since re appeared (when they finally had a big push on fixing the f/w) but by no means all

I don't use it with a password myself AFAIK

Try a hardware reset - hold reset button in > 8 seconds and start again from scratch