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Reference Manual for the NETGEAR Storage Central SC101
7-4
v1.0, September 2005
I unplugged the disk from SC101 and plugged it to a PC. Why doesn’t the PC
recognize the disk content?
The data content saved on the Storage Central hard disk is NOT compatible with your personal
computers. You can’t use the IDE hard disk on both your PC and the Storage Central device.
Sometimes I lose the drive letter of the drive. How do I get it back?
Detach the drive and attach it again. If that doesn’t help, reboot your PC (you may also need to
reboot SC101 and the router too) and it will be back.
How do I know whether my hard disk is broken (e.g., gets bad sector)?
The green power LED of the SC101 will blink: If one 200ms blink at 1.5s intervals and continues
that way, disk 1 is bad If two 200 ms blinks at 1.5s intervals and continues that way, disk 2 is bad
The default hard disk is named by the IP address. How do I tell which disk is
which?
In the Wizard mode, the physical size of the disk is shown in the disk list, in the Advanced
Configuration mode, if you move the mouse over to the disk entry, a tool tip box will show up and
tell you the disk information as well.
However, if two disks are of the same physical size, the GUI doesn’t have a way to tell the
difference. What you can do is unplug one disk (power-off the unit first), rename the one disk left
in the device, then re-plug back the second disk and rename it too.
I don’t see those previously-created private (non-shared) drives. What can I do?
If you remove and reinstall the software without being connected to the SC101, or your PC simply
dies/goes away, then you won’t be able to see those drives. What you can do in those cases is to
press and hold the reset button on the back panel for more than six seconds. After the SC101
reboots, you should be able to see those drives in the Advanced Configuration mode’s Available
Drives list and attach them again.
Please note that this reset sequence will reset the administrator password back to default
“password”. You should change it again for security.