Today I built my own external hard drive. Fairly standard as far as electronics go, but still a good thing to know how to do.
This is a picture of the enclosure which houses the hard drive
This is the actual hard drive unit
Here we see the hard drive inside of the enclosure. This is what the inside of an external hard drive looks like
This is the finished product. After snapping the hard drive into the enclosure, I screwed the side panels on.
Im using this hard drive to connect to the linksys nslu2 network attached storage device. I've had a difficult time getting this to work. At first the device wouldn't show up on the computer, then we had trouble formatting it. These are some of the steps I took while attempting to get this thing working.
Default Password - admin
IP Address - check your DHCP logs
Access through browser
Go to search, control panel, network and internet connections, then click on my network places, then click on view work group computers, and finally click on the folder labeled LKGxxxxxxx.
Format drive by doing the following
Type the IP address in the browser
Username - admin
Password - admin
Go to administration
Advanced
Disc
Format disc one
