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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.
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, ...
You are probably right. But I came here in hope to get another answer :D
Any idea if DD-WRT would solve it? It did work in one of my previous Linksys routers with DD-WRT. But I belive it worked with Linksys stock FW aswell, so that might not tell you anything.
Yes, I power the cabinet with external power, even thou USB3 should supply enough power.
Buying a NAS would possibly be the simple but expensive solution. But I’ve been using my USB-drive connected to my routers as a NAS for several years and it does all I ask for flawlessly. So I can’t see why I should be forced to buy another device when I can be done simpler and cheaper. Especially when I have bought one of the most expensive home-routers on the market.
The only managing you can do to this device is switch between how it’s presenting itself to the host it’s being connected to. You can choose between RAID0, RAID1 and two separate drives.
So when in any RAID config it looks like any single USB harddrive for the host, my X10 router in this case. The host doesn’t know the cabinet has two drives inside. Non I've tested anyway. I’ve used it on my Linux laptop and it does not see it as two drives either.
The switch to do this is inside of the cabinet and cannot be changed once you have data on the drives. Changing it will wipe the drives.
As mentioned before, I have another dual drive USB-cabinet, but this one is from a no-name maker. It works exactly the same. The only difference is that the X10 router discovered this one after it had been connected for a few days! I would really love an explanation how that could be!?
Thanks for your inputs!
All these embedded devices are at least one decade behind any decent desktop or server Linux distro. Kernels are historic, the UPnP code is from the early days, ... that's all. And the SoC makers deliver mostly outdated dev kit code. ODM integrating things often standardize on the "most basic" common available code. Figure. That's all.
I installed DD-WRT and the "problem" is solved.