ASUS RT-N66U USB HDD cross-linking and master file table errors

[thewul]

Beats me .. it said: Scanning... and nothing was happening.
Things were up exactly the same way as if it were a USB Flash Drive (I was using a smaller USB flash drive, but wanted more space available).

As said, after a few tries, I gave up.When I plugged in the USB flash drive, this were okay again.

Actually, I spent about 1,5-2 days(!) to get this USB-thing working.
Got the router last Friday. Was up and going quickly. But getting the USB-thing working, that's a different thing... There is a very good video on YouTube on how to set things up
"How to setup and access your Asus RT-N66U FTP device".
Am a newbie...

IE/FF would not work, the drive was visible, but trying to access the subfolder (as admin) resulted in a "Webpage could not be found"-error.
After hours (incl. trying to find a solution on the web) I gave up.

Then I went for solution of using Windows Explorer as FTP client.
That went fine, I could see the subfolder and contents. Waow!
Sofar so good.
That already after more than a day.

Created a user with R/W authorization. I cud log in on the name of the user (+pw).
But.. the user could not (abroad) : "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another”. Great!
No, no typo, he copy-pasted the one I provided and that worked for me.
Both using Windows 7 64bit, both firewall disabled for this session.

Then I discovered an article on "The folder you entered..." error on:
http://www.techiechips.com/web-folders-web-disk-webdav-problems-on-windows-7/

Recommendation was to use BitKinex. That worked fine.
We are now FileZilla, both applications are working fine.
Since yesterday...

I have now formatted my 750GB external USB drive to FAT32, which, btw, also required to check internet as Windows 7 supports exFAT or NTFS and exFAT is not supported by the router.

Used fat32format
(http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm)
the drive was formatted in a few seconds.

Hopefully, it will work, let's see.

Oops, sorry for the long story...

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[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Beats me .. it said: Scanning... and nothing was happening.
Things were up exactly the same way as if it were a USB Flash Drive (I was using a smaller USB flash drive, but wanted more space available).

As said, after a few tries, I gave up.When I plugged in the USB flash drive, this were okay again.

Actually, I spent about 1,5-2 days(!) to get this USB-thing working.
Got the router last Friday. Was up and going quickly. But getting the USB-thing working, that's a different thing... There is a very good video on YouTube on how to set things up
"How to setup and access your Asus RT-N66U FTP device".
Am a newbie...

IE/FF would not work, the drive was visible, but trying to access the subfolder (as admin) resulted in a "Webpage could not be found"-error.
After hours (incl. trying to find a solution on the web) I gave up.

Then I went for solution of using Windows Explorer as FTP client.
That went fine, I could see the subfolder and contents. Waow!
Sofar so good.
That already after more than a day.

Created a user with R/W authorization. I cud log in on the name of the user (+pw).
But.. the user could not (abroad) : "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another”. Great!
No, no typo, he copy-pasted the one I provided and that worked for me.
Both using Windows 7 64bit, both firewall disabled for this session.

Then I discovered an article on "The folder you entered..." error on:
http://www.techiechips.com/web-folders-web-disk-webdav-problems-on-windows-7/

Recommendation was to use BitKinex. That worked fine.
We are now FileZilla, both applications are working fine.
Since yesterday...

I have now formatted my 750GB external USB drive to FAT32, which, btw, also required to check internet as Windows 7 supports exFAT or NTFS and exFAT is not supported by the router.

Used fat32format
(http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm)
the drive was formatted in a few seconds.

Hopefully, it will work, let's see.

Oops, sorry for the long story...

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I bought this router recently. Does this problem still exists with newer firmwares? 3.0.0.4.270

I have my anime hard drive connected to the router and I'm using a readonly account, I don't want to lose data on that hard drive.

Maybe should I disable UPnP? I'm not using it so could be an idea

 

[Rabbid Dawg]

Same problem and it is still not fixed

I realize that this is a old thread.
But does anyone know if this problem Has been fixed? Last night I tried to use the drive from my n66u and I found that none of my pc's could find the folders created on the drive, Ran ms Scandisc and it restored a lot of the files and moved some to "found000"
but the rest of the files are gone, Along with a lot of work related data, what do I do?
Send it back and buy a different brand?

 

[Hanzo13]

Have same media server scanning problem

How are people repairing the files so that media server does not get hung up on scanning. I am using a WD 3TB usb drive formatted ext2(was ext3 and got converted to ext2 by a scanning attempt). I have used gparted and used fsck command but it didn't seem to find problems except for a future time and bad unmount. Nothing else. I want to fix the problematic files. They can be seen and used fine from mapped drive on PC and ftp.

When I scan I have to refresh my dlna player to see at what file the media player has last scanned and got hung up on. I then use the ftp directory to determine the next file and remove that to a folder I labeled 'zz corrupted' so that it won't be scanned again until end. There are over 60 files in the corrupted folder so far. I had to create a 'zz scanned' folder to place the previously correctly scanned files into to reduce the amount of time it takes to get to a new corrupt file. This is terrible and I'm sure there is an easier way to deal with these corrupt files so that media player will recognize them.

I have Merlin's latest build. I entered the s&s&s code. I started with ntfs with this same exact problem. Formatted to ext3 and had the same problem after I copied all my files back to the drive. In my attempts to repair the files a scan with an ext3 program converted the drive to ext2. No biggie since it still works the same flawed way as when I started.

The files are in a folder named videos in the root. Thankfully they are sorted alphabetically. However I am still working on the A's. I have a folder "Asian" for of course Asian movies which I am almost through.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[mattym]

One thing to keep in mind: never turn off the router while a disk is plugged in. Always unmount it first, or else you will face the risk of filesystem corruption. The same could also happen if for some reason your router reboots (due to a crash or a manual reboot being used).

Why is this the case? I just turned off a circuit breaker and forgot the router was on the same breaker. And now the data on the attached asus router is missing tons of data.

What is causing the router to totally mess up the data? What is the router doing that would cause this? I currently have my external hard drive formatted as HFS+

 

[RMerlin]

Why is this the case? I just turned off a circuit breaker and forgot the router was on the same breaker. And now the data on the attached asus router is missing tons of data.

What is causing the router to totally mess up the data? What is the router doing that would cause this? I currently have my external hard drive formatted as HFS+

It's not something to do with the router. Same thing with computers, you have to Safely Remove a USB disk before unplugging it, or you face the chance of data loss/corruption.

This is because the host (be it a router or a computer) will keep some data in cache, to improve write performance. The hard disk itself will also keep some data in its own cache. If you don't cleanly flush the caches back to disk before turning it off, data can be lost.