At 1:17 PM -0800 1/28/09, [email protected] posted: > Steve, > I don't have experience with this box but I did just install a Ximeta > Netdisk drive enclosure which is usb and ethernet. I have an older > Airport extreme which connects to my MacBook and a G4 tower. The > airport and G4 are connected to the airport via ethernet through a > switcher. > > The Netdisk enclosure is PATA, not SATA, T100 not gigabit, has usb2 > connectivity as well as ethernet. It only cost me only about $30 so > the older drive type and slower connectivity is less of a problem than > if I had spent big bucks. (Actually only the switcher and G4 can > handle gigabit...the Airport can't, so the MacBook doesn't either.) > One big advantage of this little drive is that it works fine with Mac > formatted drives as long as there are no PCs looking at it. > > I think NAS is really interesting so I thought I'd reply to your > message with my experience. I'm interested in how yours works out. > > I have about 50,000 photos on the drive and it is ok for iPhoto on the > MacBook through the Airport, just a little slow. I expect to add an > iTunes library soon. The T100 system is fast enough to support that. > > The big problem for me is that the drive appears on either the MacBook > or the G4 but not both. The software isn't suppposed to allow read/ > write access on any but one computer on the network. All others > should be set up as read only, which is a disadvantage in itself. > But the other computer won't even display the drive. I have a support > question in to Ximeta but haven't heard anything yet. > > Anyone with experience with this kind of system? Comments? Please > feel free to open another thread.
I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one Mac at a time. The read/write on one Mac only still applies. I regularly mount read/write on one Mac and read on the other. I've also had a third iBook mounted read only. Don't forget the order -- computer on, NAS on, NAS Utility on the read/write computer to mount, then the NAS Utility on the read computer to mount. To unmount the drive, it has to be Ejected first and then Unmounted through the NAS Utility on each computer. Support/Downloads/MacOS <http://www.ximeta.com/web/> Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
