Diversion AMTM / Diversion stopped working (USB Drive?)

[Dancing Lemur]

I've been running AMTM/Diversion for years. Once I get it installed, I let it run and just make it sure it's updated. A little while ago, it stopped working. I saw a USB drive not recognized error and thought the USB drive wasn't working. But that seemed to be the case with a different USB drive.

I've tried reformatting the drive and that seemed to work. The router rebooted. But when it came back up and I tried using amtm to install entware (after diversion told me I needed that), I saw the error:

No compatible device(s) found to install Entware on.
A USB storage device formatted with one of
these file systems is required:
ext2, ext3, ext4

Use Format disk (fd) in amtm to format devices to ext*.

Is this a known issue that can be resolved? Or is my USB port broken? I have a RT-AX88U Pro running the latest Merlin firmware (3004.388.8_2). I didn't see any log messages that seemed relevant but I may not have been looking for the right things there.

If someone can point me in the right direction to help debug this, it'd be greatly appreciated. I don't touch this stuff actively until something breaks. Apologies if this was posted somewhere else.

Thanks,

Dancing Lemur

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[Dancing Lemur]

I saw something that said ext4 might not be working, so I tried with ext3 and managed to capture the message. I'm not sure why it's saying the drive is .1 GB. And it doesn't appear to detect /dev/sda1.

Dancing Lemur


Formatting sda SanDisk Corporation Anisha (0.1 GB) now!
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Stopping file serving services and swap file

Unmounting device(s)

Zeroing disk sda SanDisk Corporation Anisha (0.1 GB)

16065+0 records in
16065+0 records out

Creating partition(s) on sda SanDisk Corporation Anisha (0.1 GB)

Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI, OSF or GPT disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that the previous content
won't be recoverable.


Command (m for help): Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that the previous content
won't be recoverable.


Command (m for help): Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
Partition number (1-4): First cylinder (1-1016, default 1): Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1016, default 1016): Using default value 1016

Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table

Formatting disk as "ext3", enabling journalling

mke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
The file /dev/sda1 does not exist and no size was specified.
Setting disk device label "AMTMDRIVE"

tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
tune2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)