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SSDC-R/C/IP Hardware Manual
Option 2: Connect a Drive Directly to Your PC
1. Connect one end of a CAT5e STP cable into the LAN card (NIC) on your PC and the other to the drive.
You don’t need a special “crossover cable”; the drive will automatically detect the direct connection and make the necessary
physical layer changes.
2. The default IP address is “10.10.10.10”.
3. To set the IP address of your PC:
a. On Windows XP, right click on “My Network Places” and select properties.
b. On Windows 7, click Computer. Scroll down the left pane until you see “Network”. Right click and select
properties.
Select “Change adapter settings”
4. You should see an icon for your network interface card (NIC). Right click and select properties.
a. Scroll down until you see “Internet Properties (TCP/IP)”. Select this item and click the Properties button.
b. On Windows 7 and Vista, look for “(TCP/IPv4)”
5. Select the option “Use the following IP address”. Then enter the address “10.10.10.10”. This will give your PC an IP
address that is on the same subnet as the drive. Windows will know to direct any traffic intended for the drive’s IP address
to this interface card.
6. Next, enter the subnet mask as “255.255.255.0”.
7. Be sure to leave “Default gateway” blank. This will prevent your PC from looking for a router on this subnet.
8. Because you are connected directly to the drive, anytime the drive is not powered on, your PC will annoy you with a
small message bubble in the corner of your screen saying “The network cable is unplugged.”
