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Soft-Com
Oct 28, 2016Aspirant
ReadyNAS 104 - USB HDD doesnt show up.
Hi, we use external HDDs from WD to make a daily backup from the NAS. So we change daily the external HDDs drive, which is connected to the front usb port. This works fine for weeks, but since a few ...
Soft-Com
Oct 31, 2016Aspirant
Hello JennC,
thanks for your reply.
We will try another Port at the evening, because the System has an active backup task at the moment.
I looked at the log files and this shows that this problem occures after the firmware upgrade to 6.6.0.
Regards,
Volker Brosius
it-tude
Oct 31, 2016Aspirant
Hi, also have the same problem on my readynas 104 with firmware 6.6.0 and full backup to 3TB my passport USB drives connected to the front USB port.
During backup the nas hangs and I have to power cycle it to access it again !!
Is it better to use the rear USB ports ?
- FramerVOct 31, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi it-tude,
The engineers are aware of the reports about the USB detection. They are still working on a fix for it. Temporarily, the only work around that we have is to reboot the NAS upon connecting the USB to the NAS.
Regards,
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