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Hello,

I recently update from ASUS firmware to Merlin 384.8-Beta2. It seems external hard drive which is brand new keeps throwing error. I run check and so far no error is reported.

I tried to revert back to default ASUS firmware and below doesn't happen. Any idea how to resolve the issue? - Thanks

PS - Hard drive is brand new and have only may be 100 files on it.

Code:
ntfsck 3014.5.21
Checking NTFS Superblock ...
Device name        : /dev/sda1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 8001560769024 bytes (8001561 MB)
Current device size: 8001560772608 bytes (8001561 MB)
Checking for bad sectors ...
Scanning $MFT ...
Checking directory structure ...
Checking for orphaned files ...
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Scanning orphaned files completed.
Checking attributes ...
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Failed to calloc 244188256 bytes: Cannot allocate memory
Checking cluster allocation ...
ERROR(12): Failed to setup allocation bitmap: Cannot allocate memory
Syncing device ...
 
Hello,

I recently update from ASUS firmware to Merlin 384.8-Beta2. It seems external hard drive which is brand new keeps throwing error. I run check and so far no error is reported.

I tried to revert back to default ASUS firmware and below doesn't happen. Any idea how to resolve the issue? - Thanks

PS - Hard drive is brand new and have only may be 100 files on it.

Code:
ntfsck 3014.5.21
Checking NTFS Superblock ...
Device name        : /dev/sda1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 8001560769024 bytes (8001561 MB)
Current device size: 8001560772608 bytes (8001561 MB)
Checking for bad sectors ...
Scanning $MFT ...
Checking directory structure ...
Checking for orphaned files ...
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Scanning orphaned files completed.
Checking attributes ...
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Failed to calloc 244188256 bytes: Cannot allocate memory
Checking cluster allocation ...
ERROR(12): Failed to setup allocation bitmap: Cannot allocate memory
Syncing device ...
Did you reset to factory defaults when you upgraded and had problems?
 
Hello,

Yes, i reset to factory defaults after the upgrade and added the hard drive. Below are the steps i followed -

1. Update firmware
2. Did factory reset.
3. Reboot.
4. Configure all from scratch
5. Plugin hard drive.

I even checked hard drive, through smartcl and so far no issues in hard drive. I am also not sure why HD is detected as USB 2.0 and not 3.0.


https://www.screencast.com/t/KDERFXimlC0
 
Hello,

Yes, i reset to factory defaults after the upgrade and added the hard drive. Below are the steps i followed -

1. Update firmware
2. Did factory reset.
3. Reboot.
4. Configure all from scratch
5. Plugin hard drive.

I even checked hard drive, through smartcl and so far no issues in hard drive. I am also not sure why HD is detected as USB 2.0 and not 3.0.


https://www.screencast.com/t/KDERFXimlC0
The disk check on the router is not very good. Install amtm and use the disk check script. It runs at boot.
 
How big is the drive? It won't mount as USB3 because it is not a supported device, (There are very few).
 
Also I don't think that there is support for over 4T drives. Sometimes the drive has to be formatted as ext4 to get everything working.
 
There simply isn't enough memory to support a disk check of an 8TB drive. You would likely also have problems on the OEM firmware as well at some point. You might try partitioning it into 2x4TB drives.
 
The disk check on the router is not very good. Install amtm and use the disk check script. It runs at boot.

I used smartctl which I use for my servers having HD's in RAID and it runs just fine. I even tried WD tool for checking any error. No issues so far.

Also I don't think that there is support for over 4T drives. Sometimes the drive has to be formatted as ext4 to get everything working.

In ASUS default firmware it was listed under USB 3.0. Only with Merlin firmware, I am having issue. So trying to figure out what the issue is.

OEM software's, i have no issue. smartcl runs fine with 10TB hard drives.

My connection to devices is rock solid much better then ASUS firmware. All my smart devices, don't loose any connections but external hard drive is giving me crazy headache.
 

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