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usb external drives on a R7500
can you access two usb external drives simultaneously on a R7500?
The router firmware version is V1.0.0.94 and my Windows version is Win7 Professional. The way I would map the first usb drive is as follows: Windows Start button > Computer > Map network drive (from Tool bar) > Drive: Z > Folder: \\192.168.1.1\USB_Storage > Finish.
I followed simular steps to map the second usb drive but my mistake was to guess the //server/share name, which was always incorrect.I finally got it to map the second usb drive with the following steps:
Windows Start button > Computer > Map network drive (from Tool bar) > Drive: x > Folder: \\192.168.1.1 > Browse... [which then showed my share name choices as \USB_Storage or \USB_Storage(T)]. When I selected \USB_Storage(T) > Finish I was successfully able to map my second usb drive and access it simultaneously with the first.
If I clicked on Browse... with the //server/share name blank, it did not show any choices. It was not until I typed the //server name of //192.168.1.1 and then clicked on Browse... that I was able to see the distinction of the two /share names.
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I have R7000 and this works for me, no problems.
Pretty sure it will work on yours too.
I can map the first usb drive fine, but when I power up the second drive and try to map it to a different drive letter it connects to the first usb drive. I can tell this because all of the files and folders are the same.
I can successfully map the second drive and access the files, if I disconnect the first usb drive and power it down. But I cannot sseem to access both drives simultaneously.
Can you suggest what I am doing wrong and how I might get this done?
Tom
