Mft record size (1024) is smaller than the sector size (4096)

[brdobb]

I just bought a 3TB WD Red and attached it to my RT-AC56U, drive have one GPT NTFS partition but router can't mount it... Here is the log:

Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: disable burst on ep 3
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN no SS endpoint bMaxBurst
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: disable burst on ep 10
Sep 5 19:31:45 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN no SS endpoint bMaxBurst
Sep 5 19:31:46 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Samsung D3 Station 0202 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Sep 5 19:31:46 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Sep 5 19:31:46 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:46 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:46 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:51 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
Sep 5 19:31:51 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:52 kernel: .
Sep 5 19:31:52 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:52 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:52 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:53 kernel: .
Sep 5 19:31:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:54 kernel: .
Sep 5 19:31:54 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:54 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:54 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: .ready
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 732566645 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 732566645 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 732566645 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 5 19:31:55 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Sep 5 19:31:56 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Sep 5 19:31:56 kernel: tntfs error (device sda2, pid 20011): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mft record size (1024) is smaller than the sector size (4096). This is not supported. Sorry.
Sep 5 19:31:56 kernel: tntfs error (device sda2, pid 20013): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mft record size (1024) is smaller than the sector size (4096). This is not supported. Sorry.
Sep 5 19:31:56 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Sep 5 19:31:56 kernel: tntfs error (device sda2, pid 20028): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mft record size (1024) is smaller than the sector size (4096). This is not supported. Sorry.
Sep 5 19:31:56 kernel: tntfs error (device sda2, pid 20030): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mft record size (1024) is smaller than the sector size (4096). This is not supported. Sorry.
Sep 5 19:31:56 usb: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount At the first try!


Any help would be appreciated...

 

[ColinTaylor]

It looks like you have a hardware error. The Mft error may just be a symptom of that, otherwise the error message is fairly clear.

As an experiment you could try formatting the drive as something Linux-friendly like ext2 as see if the hardware errors go away.

 

[skeal]

I agree with @ColinTaylor format to ext2 and then maybe if you really need NTFS re-format back to NTFS but set sector size to the lower value. This could alter the volume size though.