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Weird USB behaviour
Hardware: RN204 @ 6.6.0 with 3 WD 4 TB Red and 1 Samsung 1.5 TB Sabrent 2 bay USB 3 docking station Toshiba 3 TB WD 4TB Red 2 brand new Segate ST4000DM000 4 TB I have been using the WD...
Bought an inateck FD2102 USB3 Dual Docking Station from Amazon. It had absolutely no problem bringing up the two Seagate 4 TB drives. Have been backing up from RN204 to it for five days now. Working great.
So since Sabrent does not support USB to anything but Windows or Mac, then the solution must be to not use Sabrent. Or Seagate?
I had thought that since the interface was USB that the operating system would be irrelivant.
I do see that the inateck box says "Support OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 (32,64 bit), Mac". So, offically, it does not support Win 10 or Linux. But it had no problem formating the drives to EXT4 on the RN204.
I bought my first PC in 1982. After 35 years I should be used to doing this stuff by trial and error.
Had not seen that. Unfortunately I tried hot swapping, powering down the docking station and rebooting the RN204. Nothing helped.
Just dawned on me that the Thinkpad is USB 2. Tried pluging the docking station into the front of the RN204 which I belive is a USB 2 port. Can only see one drive. Plugged docking station into Mac Mini (USB 3) running Windows 10. Both Seagate drives come up immediately.
Hi RDD,
Were you able to try the BETA Firmware?
Regards,
Have not tried the beta yet.
Found an article about Seagates having a problem with "signature collision". Similar symtoms to mine. Solution involves using DOS DiskPart to see if drives have identical signature and if so modifying one. Some USB controllers require unique signatures. Want to try that first.
Hi RDD,
I see. Please keep me posted about it.
Regards,
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