Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Ethernet hard drive

[Mike K. <Mik...@Sy...>]

Shaun Jackman wrote:

>I'd like to attach a hard drive to my Game Cube so that I could boot
>Linux without the aid of a (standard) computer. I thought one way to
>accomplish this would be to use an Ethernet hard drive, aka
>Network-attached Storage (NAS). Has anyone tried this?
>  
>
I don't even own a GC any more, so I haven't tried this myself, but I'd 
look at a Linksys NSLU2 
(http://www1.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=640&scid=43). A 
friend has one, and they are _tiny_ - the picture on that web site is 
only a bit smaller than the real thing. It will convert a regular hard 
drive in the USB 2 enclosure of your choice into something your GC can 
see over the Ethernet port. And they tend to be cheap and easy to find 
on Ebay.

The best part is it runs Linux, and has a fairly robust community making 
firmware upgrades for it (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/). So it can make 
that drive available through NFS, CIFS(Samba), FTP, whatever.

It's a pretty cool little gadget made to add USB drives to a network, 
but it sounds like a perfect little NAS appliance for a GC.

Regards,

Mike