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R7000P crashes when I attach my USB hard drive
I have encountered an unusual but consistently reproduceable problem where my R7000P/AC2300 router crashes completely within 3-4 hrs of plugging in a 3.5" USB 3 hard drive to share via the router. M...
One further update to my problem. Having tested a different drive in the 3.5" Amazon basics USB 3.0 enclosure, I did not encounter a crash of the router over about 8 hours. As a result I started doing diagnostics on the 3 Tb HGST drive that I had originally been trying to use. MacOS Disk Utility first aid could not find any problems with the disk or any of the partitions. However I decided to rebuild the directory on all three partitions with DiskWarrior to insure that they were good. The two smaller partitions rebuilt just fine. However the third partition (actualy the first I created on the disk) and the largest of the three had problems and failed to be rebuilt twice. Suspecting problems I completely reformatted and repartitioned the drive, this time with a single large partition. Having done this I am no longer encountering the error and the router has not crashed in more than 18hrs with the drive attached. This suggests that something in the directory corruption that existed on that partition was crashing the router.
While this portion of the mystery is solved, I am now getting an error when I attempt to connect to the drive from two computers on my network via afp://routerlogin.net. SMB connections still go through fine, but there is something about the AFP connection that is not working right but that might become a separate thread.
Thanks again to all of you who contributed suggestions and guidance!
As a followup to my post yesterday, the 3.5" enclosue with the SSD that I installed has been attached and running fine for 18 hours without a crash. Since the SSD is formatted with HFS+/GUID partition table as was the 3.5" enclosure that crashed the router and the documentation supporting HFS+/GUID/multiple partitions I am beginning to think that the problem lies with either the 3.5" drive or the enclosure. I think I have another much smaller 3.5" drive that I can try to install in the enclosure to see if that makes a difference.
One further update to my problem. Having tested a different drive in the 3.5" Amazon basics USB 3.0 enclosure, I did not encounter a crash of the router over about 8 hours. As a result I started doing diagnostics on the 3 Tb HGST drive that I had originally been trying to use. MacOS Disk Utility first aid could not find any problems with the disk or any of the partitions. However I decided to rebuild the directory on all three partitions with DiskWarrior to insure that they were good. The two smaller partitions rebuilt just fine. However the third partition (actualy the first I created on the disk) and the largest of the three had problems and failed to be rebuilt twice. Suspecting problems I completely reformatted and repartitioned the drive, this time with a single large partition. Having done this I am no longer encountering the error and the router has not crashed in more than 18hrs with the drive attached. This suggests that something in the directory corruption that existed on that partition was crashing the router.
While this portion of the mystery is solved, I am now getting an error when I attempt to connect to the drive from two computers on my network via afp://routerlogin.net. SMB connections still go through fine, but there is something about the AFP connection that is not working right but that might become a separate thread.
Thanks again to all of you who contributed suggestions and guidance!