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espakman
Aspirant
Feb 26, 2016
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external USB drive not seen

Hi,

 

I just bought a Readynas RN212 as a replacement for my Duo (v1). But the external USB drive (Toshiba 2.5 inch, ext3), which I was using as backup for my Duo and always worked perfecly, isn't recognized in the RN212.

I ssh-ed to the RN212 and did a manual mount: mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt which worked. The drive is also found in /run/udev/data.

 

Any idea what is going on?

 

Kind regards,

Eric

  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    Feb 26, 2016

    Hello espakman,

     

    Does this USB have the data from the volume of your old Duo? If not and is possible to format it, use NTFS.

     

    If it has all the data, it is it may be best you contact support for the RN212 so this can be checked from the backend.

     

    Regards,

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  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hello espakman,

     

    Have you tried all the USB ports of the NAS? What's the USB version of the USB disk?

     

    Regards,

    • espakman's avatar
      espakman
      Aspirant

      Hello JennC,

       

      i have tried all USB ports. It's an USB 2.0 disk.

      ReadyNAS OS version 6.4.2

       

      Regards,

      Eric

      • JennC's avatar
        JennC
        NETGEAR Employee Retired

        Hello espakman,

         

        Does this USB have the data from the volume of your old Duo? If not and is possible to format it, use NTFS.

         

        If it has all the data, it is it may be best you contact support for the RN212 so this can be checked from the backend.

         

        Regards,

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