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ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

Can a Hard Disk Dock be used with the Fonera 2.0n?

I'm thinking on buying this one:

Update!!!!!!!

And here it is, connect to my F2N!!!!!

The HDD Docking station works like a charm, but the card reader *doesn't work*

Any idea??

AustinTX · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 18:49

W-o-w i'd love to have one of these! Get it anyway!

As long as it mounts the drive and cards as standard independant USB shares, LF should see them. I suppose it might only see one share, or certain shares and not others, but it would be useful to find out how that goes. Naturally, Fon would hold it's breath nervously, but be very happy to learn that it works 100%

It also appears that this device would serve as the powered hub which LF usually needs.

ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

AustinTX wrote:

It also appears that this device would serve as the powered hub which LF usually needs.

My thought exactly when I saw this! Hell, I'm ordering one right now, I'll tell you later how it all went!

Carl · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 20:06 **Posts:** 36

ei99070 wrote:

AustinTX wrote:

It also appears that this device would serve as the powered hub which LF usually needs.

My thought exactly when I saw this! Hell, I'm ordering one right now, I'll tell you later how it all went!

Excellent waiting with baited breath :mrgreen:

skynetbbs · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 09:48

Carl wrote:

ei99070 wrote:

AustinTX wrote:

It also appears that this device would serve as the powered hub which LF usually needs.

My thought exactly when I saw this! Hell, I'm ordering one right now, I'll tell you later how it all went!

Excellent waiting with baited breath :mrgreen:

as far as I know...these work... in most cases
eg my Canon MP630 connected by usb also holds a cardreader...I can access eg compactflash inside of it...but won't be able to access the usb on the canon via the fonera...

I have also such thing as above... with 2 usb sticks and an SD card reader...it works

The Esata to Usb converter didn't work... probably no such drivers in the scsi-core library
it works on ubuntu... perhaps there are some scsi-advaced drivers?

mgr · **Joined:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 22:13 **Posts:** 5

Carl wrote:

ei99070 wrote:

AustinTX wrote:

It also appears that this device would serve as the powered hub which LF usually needs.

My thought exactly when I saw this! Hell, I'm ordering one right now, I'll tell you later how it all went!

Excellent waiting with baited breath :mrgreen:

Definitely report back! Think this is going to be my next purchase

ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

mgr wrote:

Definitely report back! Think this is going to be my next purchase

I'm just (eagerly) waiting for the delivery...

fulsunder · **Joined:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 03:06 **Posts:** 1

Yes it works!
I am already using a SATA HDD Dock
Better create a FAT32 partition below 32gb. for fonera.

ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

fulsunder wrote:

Better create a FAT32 partition below 32gb. for fonera.

Question: is there a problem using NTFS formatted disks (lets say of 500GB) with the F2N? Or should I format them on ext2/3?

ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

Well, the docking station has arrived, and after having to run to the local electrical parts store to buy a power plug adapter (UK -> EU), I managed to successfully connect it to the F2N...

For now, I managed only to test it with SD Cards and an portable hard-drive connected to one of the USB hub ports; the hub works fine and I managed to connect up to two external drives on to it, but the SD card doesn't seem to work...

Any thoughts on how to make it recognize flash cards, like SD??

Tomorrow I'll be testing it with a SATA Hard Disk and then post the results here!

ei99070 · **Joined:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:09 **Posts:** 13

Updated the first post!

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