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RAX45 ReadySHARE not recognizing WD My Passport Ultra - USB 3 2 TB drive - HFS+ formatted
I think the title says it all. Using an RAX45 (AX4300). I'm trying to share a USB 3 WD My Passport Ultra 2 TB drive formatted in HFS+, which should be supported. It is powered by USB and this thing w...
Sorted out the router is seeing the EFI partition, but not the HFS partition. Anyone have any idea how to address this? Extremely frustrating.
Deleted the EFI partition, now it doesn't see the drive at all.
Is the claimed HFS+ compatibility pure bs?
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I tried that. The advice they gave me was not helpful as it did not address the problem I described to them.
I'm returning the router. As far as I can tell the claim that it supports HFS+ drives is untrue.
> Deleted the EFI partition, now it doesn't see the drive at all.
"Deleted" _how_, exactly? I know nothing, but I recall seeing
reports here that these routers can detect/use only the first partition
on a device. If you only wrecked the file system, but left the little
partition in place, then that might explain the observed behavior. In
which case, I'd try creating a single, whole-device partition and file
system.> Is the claimed HFS+ compatibility pure bs?
My brief experience on a different/older model convince me that it
was, at best, dancing-bear software, so I quit trying to use it. To me,
unreliable storage is worse than none.
