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Unable to mount/format USB Drive
I changed the name of the USB drive within the RN 600 and now it will let me see it but not mount/use it. I connected it to a Windows 2000 machine and it sees it fine and the files there. Model: ...
I know that this thread is 3 years old, but here in 2009 I've got a ReadyNas NV that has the latest Radiator installed and I am having the same problem. I didn't find an answer upon reading through the thread, so I figured I'd ask about this in case the fix is known by now.
The background is that I was trying to back up my whole NAS to a USB drive (new drive + enclosure, works fine with my mac and PC), but it kept failing because I was backing up to a FAT32 partition on the USB drive and some of the filenames on my NAS are not OK on FAT32.
So I went to Volumes -> USB Storage, clicked on the "Options" dropdown -> Format EXT3, then clicked "go"
Nothing happened, except the dropdown menu and the "go" button became grayed-out. The "apply" button down the page was grayed out still, so it didn't seem like there was any way to kick the format into gear. Even after I left it that way all night, there was no change.
Like an earlier person who posted to this thread, I hooked the USB drive up to my Linux PC and used mkfs.ext3 to format that partition. That went fine, and on my linux PC the drive is now ext3-formatted.
However, when I plug it back into my NAS, it now shows up formatted as "FAT' in Volumes -> USB Storage.
Is there a fix for this? It seems like the NAS won't format it to EXT3 itself, and it won't recognize it as EXT3-formatted when I do it elsewhere. Not sure what else to try..
Thanks,
-David Merrill
The background is that I was trying to back up my whole NAS to a USB drive (new drive + enclosure, works fine with my mac and PC), but it kept failing because I was backing up to a FAT32 partition on the USB drive and some of the filenames on my NAS are not OK on FAT32.
So I went to Volumes -> USB Storage, clicked on the "Options" dropdown -> Format EXT3, then clicked "go"
Nothing happened, except the dropdown menu and the "go" button became grayed-out. The "apply" button down the page was grayed out still, so it didn't seem like there was any way to kick the format into gear. Even after I left it that way all night, there was no change.
Like an earlier person who posted to this thread, I hooked the USB drive up to my Linux PC and used mkfs.ext3 to format that partition. That went fine, and on my linux PC the drive is now ext3-formatted.
However, when I plug it back into my NAS, it now shows up formatted as "FAT' in Volumes -> USB Storage.
Is there a fix for this? It seems like the NAS won't format it to EXT3 itself, and it won't recognize it as EXT3-formatted when I do it elsewhere. Not sure what else to try..
Thanks,
-David Merrill
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