MaxNAS Owner’s Manual
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. Adding External Disks
The MaxNAS has two rear USB ports, one front USB port, and one eSATA port for attaching
external storage devices such as the Fantom Drives G-Force Megadisk lines of products,
formatted in FAT32 or NTFS. Please note that NTFS volumes will be available in read only
mode. The MaxNAS supports up to 6 external storage devices. Attached disks are accessible by
navigating to \\
[MaxNAS]
\usbhdd\sd
[x]
\
[y]
Where:
[MaxNAS]
is the netbios name or IP
address of the MaxNAS,
[x]
refers to the port the
disk is attached to, and
[y]
refers to the partition
number. See chapter 4, Connecting Users, for more
information on accessing shared data.
5. USB Target Mode
Your MaxNAS can present storage as an external USB disk device, connected via the USB type “A”
target mode port on the back of the unit. Space for USB target mode must be allocated in RAID
management screen (see chapter 3, Section 2.2.5 for more information), and will be recognized
as an unformatted disk when initially connected to a host. Since the space allocated resides on
the RAID, it will enjoy all performance and fault tolerance features afforded by the MaxNAS.
IMPORTANT:
The MaxNAS cannot format
external disks. In order to access external disks
over the network, make sure your external disk
is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS.
The MaxNAS
can access NTFS partitions for reading only.
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2-Connecting the MaxNAS
