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USB external drive

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:56 am
by kenny70
Don't know if i'm doing something wrong or my drive is not compatible but wont show as connected.
Its a WD 3tb my book

log


Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 17 12:01:12 daemon notice kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Book 1140 1019 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Apr 17 12:01:12 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
Apr 17 12:01:13 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:14 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:15 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:16 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon info kernel: .ready
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon err kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -79.
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte hardware sectors: (0 B/0 B)
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon err kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Apr 17 12:01:18 daemon err kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
Apr 17 12:01:18 daemon err kernel: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock


kenny

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:15 pm
by billion_fan
kenny70 wrote:Don't know if i'm doing something wrong or my drive is not compatible but wont show as connected.
Its a WD 3tb my book

log


Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 17 12:01:07 daemon info kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 17 12:01:12 daemon notice kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Book 1140 1019 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Apr 17 12:01:12 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
Apr 17 12:01:13 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:14 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:15 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:16 daemon info kernel: .
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon info kernel: .ready
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon err kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -79.
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte hardware sectors: (0 B/0 B)
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon err kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 17 12:01:17 daemon notice kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Apr 17 12:01:18 daemon err kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
Apr 17 12:01:18 daemon err kernel: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock


kenny

From the log it is unable to read your boot sector. As the hard drive is too big refer to this log "Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices"

Have you tried the beta firmware?? Link below

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=919

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:10 pm
by kenny70
yes tried that first before I posted

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:47 am
by billion_fan
kenny70 wrote:yes tried that first before I posted
Let me check with enginners the max supported size for a external HD.

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:29 pm
by kenny70
any update on this

kenny

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:40 pm
by billion_fan
kenny70 wrote:any update on this

kenny
No reply yet, chasing them now

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:46 am
by billion_fan
kenny70 wrote:any update on this

kenny
Max hard drive size that the 7800xxxx supports is 2tb.

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:04 pm
by kenny70
thanks for letting me know

kenny

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:06 pm
by marko988
Hi, I'm posting here, because I've a problem related to the external drive feature of the 7800dxl.

I connected a 250gb hard drive (with two partitions, ntfs and fat32), the storage device info in the router admin page shows properly both of the partitions, but it's not so clear how I'm supposed to access to the disk from a device connected to the network, in order to create a NAS, using the disk to share contents with all the devices!

I've looked for external hard drives both from a windows pc that from a Mac and there's no trace of the shared disk...

Any help?

(I attach the screenshot of the USB setting from the admin configuration page)

Re: USB external drive

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:31 am
by billion_fan
marko988 wrote:Hi, I'm posting here, because I've a problem related to the external drive feature of the 7800dxl.

I connected a 250gb hard drive (with two partitions, ntfs and fat32), the storage device info in the router admin page shows properly both of the partitions, but it's not so clear how I'm supposed to access to the disk from a device connected to the network, in order to create a NAS, using the disk to share contents with all the devices!

I've looked for external hard drives both from a windows pc that from a Mac and there's no trace of the shared disk...

Any help?

(I attach the screenshot of the USB setting from the admin configuration page)
Attached is the UK quick start guide, on page 29 you can find how you can access your HD, once you access it you can map the hard drive for ease of access.