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Storage Central Turbo Model SC101T and Storage Central Model SC101 User Manual • You may be running some personal firewall software on your PC. The Storage Central works behind Windows XP Personal Firewall, but does not work behind firewalls like Trend Micro Personal Firewall and Norton firewall. Disable the firewall, or configure the firewall to open UDP port 20001. Frequently Asked Questions About Accessing Drives Questions and answers about accessing drives are listed in this section. 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 the Storage Central and the router too) and it will be back. 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 Storage Central, 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 Storage Central 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. Why doesn't my old IDE drive show up? (SC101 only) ATA5 or below IDE drives are not supported; you need an ATA6 or above. If you plug in an ATA5 HD, after rebooting, the green power LED will flash four times periodically to signal that an old ATA5 or below IDE drive is connected. I created a shared drive on one PC. Why doesn't it show up on other PCs? After creating the shared drive on one PC, it doesn't automatically show up on other PCs. You need attach it once from the other PCs. You can use the Wizard Setup mode) or Advanced Configuration mode to attach the shared drive, or any detached non-shared drive. See "Attaching a Shared Drive to Other PCs" in Chapter 2 for the SC101T, or "Attaching a Shared Drive to Other PCs" in Chapter 3 for the SC101. 5-7 v1.0, December 2006

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Storage Central Turbo Model SC101T and Storage Central Model SC101 User Manual
5-7
v1.0, December 2006
•
You may be running some personal firewall software on your PC. The Storage Central works
behind Windows XP Personal Firewall, but does not work behind firewalls like Trend Micro
Personal Firewall and Norton firewall. Disable the firewall, or configure the firewall to open
UDP port 20001.
Frequently Asked Questions About Accessing Drives
Questions and answers about accessing drives are listed in this section.
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 the Storage Central and the router too) and it will be back.
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 Storage Central, 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
Storage Central 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.
Why doesn’t my old IDE drive show up? (SC101 only)
ATA5 or below IDE drives are not supported; you need an ATA6 or above. If you plug in an ATA5
HD, after rebooting, the green power LED will flash four times periodically to signal that an old
ATA5 or below IDE drive is connected.
I created a shared drive on one PC. Why doesn’t it show up on other PCs?
After creating the shared drive on one PC, it doesn’t automatically show up on other PCs. You
need attach it once from the other PCs. You can use the Wizard Setup mode) or Advanced
Configuration mode to attach the shared drive, or any detached non-shared drive. See
“Attaching a
Shared Drive to Other PCs” in Chapter 2
for the SC101T, or
“Attaching a Shared Drive to Other
PCs” in Chapter 3
for the SC101.