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X10 R9000 & SilverStone DS222 = no-go?
Hi, New here since I recently got myself a Netgear X10 R9000. I have two concerns I want help with but will create a second thread for the other one. What I need help with here is that my router does ...
I installed DD-WRT and the "problem" is solved.
ReadyShare has limited support for USB devices. The arrangement you describe is well outside its capabilities.
You can get an idea of what you can use from this page:
Will my USB drive work with ReadySHARE | Answer | NETGEAR Support
For serious networking use Ethernet.
It all looks like it can't support this particular device. But I have read Netgears support claim that it's supposed to supports way more than 1TB drives and among others EXT4 file systems. So I don't buy that just yet.
The cabinet does not require any specific drivers as far as I know. I can even connect it to my Android smartphone without any problems! Haven't tried that with EXT4 thou.
81anKarlsson wrote:
The cabinet does not require any specific drivers as far as I know.Hmm. Don't forget that Windows and other OSs come with built-in support for a pile of kit.
The OS on a router cannot hope to match that.
But don't take my word for it, I am just reporting what I have read here over the years. This tells me that no one has managed to get stuff like that to work. Maybe you have the magic touch.
I assume you are powering this enclosure externally and not hoping the router will power it. That said as others have noted this is probably out of the realm of the router being able to support it.
I would suggest you look into an external NAS like I did rather then trying to get the router to handle NAS duties along with routing and network device support. My thought is routers were meant to route and support networks and you use another purpose built external network attached NAS.
We have seen such enclosures with embedded RAID controllers (mostly unmanaged, virtually zero monitoring capabilities, ....) which seem to be recognized by some devices as a single storage volume, while other systems (mostly Linux) does detect them like n individual storage devices - same on other embedded devices ReadyNAS, Asustor, QNAP, Synology NAS, ...
