Testing hardware over the network.

Does any one know if this is even possible and if so, how? I have an external firewire drive that is acting up and I need to test it but I can only access it over a network (it's connected to another computer in a remote location). I can connect to the drive over the network but it does not show up in Disk Utility. Is there anyway to test it?

AFAIK, only if you can gain access to the remote computer and launch Disk Utility from there.

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