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USB drives that work with RN104 & firmware 6.4.1 +
Anyone know which USB drives work properly with RN104 & firmware 6.4.1 and up. (Also if you know of one that doesn't work.) I need to replace my USB backup drive, a Seagate GoFlex with USB 3.0 which ...
Which USB port is the GoFlex connected to?
Which filesystem is on this USB disk?
Which services and apps are you running?
What problem are you having with the USB disk?
Hi RonSchmiege,
The RN100 series devices have one front port, USB version 2.0, and 2 rear ports, USB version 3.0. It recognizes USB drives with FAT32, EXT3/4, NTFS and HFS format.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community
BrianL2 wrote:
The RN100 series devices have one front port, USB version 2.0, and 2 rear ports, USB version 3.0. It recognizes USB drives with FAT32, EXT3/4, NTFS and HFS format.
btrfs was just added to 6.4.2 beta.
Skywalker wrote:
- [Beta 1] Recognize BTRFS filesystems in USB drives.
BTW, all this should be in the software manual (and not just the data sheet). It isn't.
Sounds like this is the answer to my problem. I have the USB drive connected to the front port. I'll try moving it as soon as I get a chance (tomorrow probably) wish I had known this a month ago when I first updated to 4.6.1.
Hi RonSchmiege,
Just update this thread once you're done testing it.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamMoving the Go Flex drive to the rear USB port did NOT work. It still locks up the RN104 (I have to remove power to reboot it) and it locked up the Backup program (light still blinking and no backups showing on the Backup page of the Admin Page. Since it worked fine on the 6.2.4 firmware even on the front USB port I can't understand what has changed. If only I could return to 6.2.4. By the way I am running 6.4.2T72 now and the USB file system is NTFS. I have no APPS running and the folowing Services: CIFS, AFP, UPnP, and ReadyDLNA. Also I can successfully run the same backup to an old 250GB SimpleTech portable USB drive. (it's starting to show some errors so I can't trust it as a backup device)
Here is a link to what we have done to diagnose the problemm so far.
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