New feature - Remove USB Drive Safely on a Timer

[surajvuk]

I have now managed to put a halt script on. For the last whole week I have logged onto the router on the system log just before the script is executed and at 23:58 the script runs I can see the log updating and then the router come to a stop and then at Midnight the timer plug switches off the power. This is all working as expected. So thanks everyone for suggestions and help. I really appreciate it.

However, Now I have my hard drive plugged in now for the first time (4 days ago). And I started to see strange behaviour on the router. The issue I have is that on Saturday the wifi both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz didn't switch on. I gave it a remote reboot and nothing. I had to press the push switch on the router off/on for the wifi to work.

Then on Sunday only 2.4 ghz turned on. again only way to fix was to switch off the router and on again.

Monday only 5 ghz wifi was on and today seemed okay both 2.4 and 5 ghz were all working. I will keep monitoring this I cannot find any information on the system log.

If anyone has any thoughts please let me know? (This has only been happening since I connected SSD drive to USB 3.0 port)

 

[thelonelycoder]

I have now managed to put a halt script on. For the last whole week I have logged onto the router on the system log just before the script is executed and at 23:58 the script runs I can see the log updating and then the router come to a stop and then at Midnight the timer plug switches off the power. This is all working as expected. So thanks everyone for suggestions and help. I really appreciate it.

However, Now I have my hard drive plugged in now for the first time (4 days ago). And I started to see strange behaviour on the router. The issue I have is that on Saturday the wifi both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz didn't switch on. I gave it a remote reboot and nothing. I had to press the push switch on the router off/on for the wifi to work.

Then on Sunday only 2.4 ghz turned on. again only way to fix was to switch off the router and on again.

Monday only 5 ghz wifi was on and today seemed okay both 2.4 and 5 ghz were all working. I will keep monitoring this I cannot find any information on the system log.

If anyone has any thoughts please let me know? (This has only been happening since I connected SSD drive to USB 3.0 port)

Have you tried setting the 'Reducing USB 3.0 interference' to on when clicking on the device icon in Network map?

 

[redhat27]

First try what @thelonelycoder suggested. A few other things to try: Make sure that the SSD drive is not powered via your router's USB (has its own power supply) and also you should have this script on /jffs/scripts/pre-mount

#!/bin/sh
# pre-mount script (to be installed in /jffs/scripts)
# auto-check filesystems during boot
# first argument is the filesystem to be mounted (e.g. /dev/sda1)

CHKLOG=/var/fsck.log

# determine the type of filesystem being mounted
FSTYPE=`fdisk -l ${1:0:8} | grep $1 | cut -c55-65`

# determine the appropriate checker for the filesystem
case "$FSTYPE" in
  Linux )
    CHKCMD="e2fsck -p" ;;
  Win95* | FAT* )
    CHKCMD="fatfsck -a" ;;
  HPFS/NTFS )
    CHKCMD="chkntfs -a -f" ;;
  * )
    logger "$0:" "Unknown filesystem type $FSTYPE on $1 - no filesystem check run."
    exit 1 ;;
esac

logger "$0:" "Running '$CHKCMD $1' - see output at $CHKLOG"
echo -e "\nStarting '$CHKCMD $1' at `date`" >> $CHKLOG
$CHKCMD $1 >> $CHKLOG 2>&1

(Remember to make it executable)

It is never a good idea to abruptly disconnect power to the storage system. A disk check when restarting the router may help. Whenever possible, monitor /var/fsck.log

 

[redhat27]

A disk check when restarting the router may help

Sorry, I did not mean that it will help with the wifi issue: It will help maintain your drive better: i.e. kinda like the disk check the OSes go through if abruptly shut down.
Regarding the wifi issues try the interference thing and the dedicated power to the drive

 

[redhat27]

@surajvuk Also check out this and this thread. May be related.