Neil Horowitz
Occasional Visitor
I have a Seagate 6 TB NTFS formatted hard drive connected to the USB 3 port on my RT-AC66U-B1 router running Asuswrt-Merlin 384.5 firmware. If I ask the router to scan the disk, it always finds file system errors on the drive and advises me to connect the drive to a PC to repair the errors. I then connect the drive to a PC which always finds few if any issues and is done scanning the disk in a minute or so. If I then reconnect the drive to the router and have it scan the disk again, it again tells me that there are file system errors needing to be repaired by a PC, which again finds no problems on the drive. In addition to this issue, while the router is scanning the drive, it frequently gets up to 40% and seems to freeze for quite awhile. The box where the scan results are displayed eventually shows scanning progress in hundredths of a percent on each line, so there end up being thousands of lines created here for the scan results making it impossible to see the complete scan results. Getting the router to accept the drive after reconnecting it can be a problem frequently requiring the rebooting of the router. In addition to all of this, the built in auto scan option for connected hard drives does not save any entered configuration settings entered.
Has anyone else experienced problems like these with external drives and if so, will they be addressed in a later firmware version?
Has anyone else experienced problems like these with external drives and if so, will they be addressed in a later firmware version?