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Mounting the USB thumb Modify stock FW?
The r8500 does not auto mount or remount a usb device when it is restarted. Within the remote console how does one force the mounting of the thumbdrive? I tried hotplug Then is there a way to scri...
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The r8500 does not auto mount or remount a usb device when it is restarted. Nor is it available to be mounted unless the thumb drive is removed and reinserted
However Auto mounting work on my R7500. One would expect it to work on a better device.
I do not understand why this has not been fixed because of its effect on ReadySHARE file sharing and backup capability It is a bug.
Does Netgear think its ok if because the lights went out for a minute that a backup wont take place
I know the R8000 may not be the same however checking mine, however could have same code base, USB Drives are appearing after a reboot.
Before a forced reboot:
I noticed that Explore takes a bit more time to see it as I had to refresh the window a couple of times:
After refeshing the window, the READYSHARE folder appeared.
I connected a 3.0 drive as well as drive T:
The drive in the 2.0 port has a LED and as the router was rebooting the LED turned OFF then back ON. Top USB LEDs on the router were ON as well.
NTFS formated USB drives. 60Mb 2.0 and a 32Gb 3.0 USB drives.