Thanks for the warnings!
The first instance may not be a problem as my LAN serves simply to enable me
to access things from different locations.
As for the second: I am forewarned!
Chris.
On 20/11/2007, Stephen Davies <stephen.davies@???> wrote:
>
> BE VERY CAREFUL with these LAN Disks.
> The onboard processor is so slow that it fails a simple locking test
> where TWO connected clients can create identically named directories.
> Result? It becomes a brick.(just like a modded iphone). This can also
> apply to a single client where you think that the command to create a
> directory has not happened. Then you issue it again and suddenly, it
> catches up and you have two identically named directories.
> I had to tell a camera club member that many of his photos were gone
> forever (just like the HMRC Disks!) when he did this to his device. I
> managed to rescue some directories by putting the HDD in a PC and
> booting DR-DOS recovery disk(Thank god for the internet) but still some
> stuff was too far messed up to recover.
>
> It uses FAT32 as it is a relatively easy format to use. But this ease of
> use has its drawbacks and this is certainly one of them.
>
> The offending device was off loaded at a Car Boot sale for 5.00GBP a few
> weeks ago.
>
> Stephen D
>
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