Unable to mount/format USB Drive

ScuseMe wrote:

I hooked my drive into my iMac and changed the drive name to all caps without any blanks. Previously, I had named the drive "ReadyNAS Backup". I renamed it "READYNAS_BACKUP" (without quotes) and then reattached the drive to my NV+. The drive began functioning normally, and I was able to format it as EXT3 and run a backup. So the space in the drive name (and maybe the caps too) caused Frontview problems in processing the format and backup request. Also, it's nice that the backup log is now being displayed; I can at least see the (slow) progress of my 500 GB backup.

I was going nuts trying to figure out why the drive in my HDD docking station couldn't be mounted or formatted on my NV+ as well. FrontView defaulted the name to USB_HDD_5, which I *think* was used with another drive. After reading your post, I renamed it to USBHDD and it was able to be mounted and formatted without issue.

I suspect that that FrontView remembers all mounted hard drives and doesn't like names to be reused.

Regards,
Ira