Unable to mount/format USB Drive

bobb wrote:

I am having the SAME exact problem as cmajewsk. Ready NAS 600 Firmware: RAIDiator™ v3.00c1-p2 I changed the name of my USB drive. Since that time, I see it in Front View, under Volumes/USB Storage. It states the following USB device is connected. Light is green. My dropdown choices are Locate, Format FAT32, Format EXT3. None of these options work when GO is clicked. On the shares list page, I see the following: No USB shares exist. Plug in a USB storage device and click Refresh to display a USB share. I have tried unplugging and replugging in the USB drive. Nothing seems to work. I so not see a solution above so I will send my logs! Thanks, Bob

I have the same problem as well, with a ReadyNAS NV w/RAIDiator™ v3.01c1-p4 [1.00a032]. I originally had inserted the disk, which had a couple of NTFS partitions (that I couldn't use, of course, since the NAS needs ext3 or FAT32). I had changed the name of the drive using the NAS UI - but then I couldn't seem to format or change the disk (delete partitions, then create new ones).

I even plugged the external drive into a Linux box, formatted it ext3, and re-attached it to the NAS. It still shows up (as bobb described) with a green light and three options - Locate, Format ext3, and format FAT32 - that don't do anything when you click "Go".

Internally, the NAS sees it - I downloaded and checked the system.log:

Dec  3 20:10:55 nas kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Dec  3 20:10:55 nas kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Dec  3 20:11:01 nas kernel: SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)

mounts.log has:

/dev/hdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/c/c on /c type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)

Were you guys able to resolve the earlier problem? If so, how did you do it?

Thanks!