Non standard sector size 0x1000 bytes

[flyboytyler]

I had this problem before, and rolled back to a previous version of asus merlin to get to the drive again.

Here's my problem, and wondering if anyone has any ideas:

I have a 2TB Seagate GOFLEX drive. Formatted with NTFS.

It works fine with RT-N66U_3.0.0.4_374.40_0

If I upgrade from that version, to a later version, latest I have tried is RT-N66U_3.0.0.4_376.48_3 the drive is detected, but never mounted, when I perform a scan it returns:
Non standard sector size 0x1000 bytes
GetMount: "/dev/sda2"
GetMount: Device is not mounted

Type of the filesystem is NTFS


Does anyone have any ideas, I have tried formatting the drive from scratch, I have deleted all partitions, formatted etc. no joy getting it to work with the latest versions.

Would really like to use a later version of the firmware.
Thanks
Carl

 

[flyboytyler]

For extra information, this is what the system log shows when I plug it in:

Dec 14 12:31:21 kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
Dec 14 12:31:21 kernel: usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec 14 12:31:21 kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate GoFlex Desk 0D19 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 732566645 4096-byte hardware sectors (3000593 MB)
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 732566645 4096-byte hardware sectors (3000593 MB)
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Dec 14 12:31:23 hotplug[4642]: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount at the first try!
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Dec 14 12:31:23 hotplug[4643]: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Dec 14 12:31:23 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8 instead of kernel utf8
Dec 14 12:31:31 kernel: ufsd: sda2 without journal
Dec 14 12:31:31 hotplug[4643]: USB ntfs fs at /dev/sda2 mounted on /tmp/mnt/External
Dec 14 12:31:32 hotplug[4643]: USB partition unmounted from /tmp/mnt/External