questions about USB storage types.

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Is there away i can get my RT-AC68U to read all of the hard drives being provided by https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V5ONPAW/?tag=snbforums-20
because it is only reading the first hard drive.

 

[ApexRon]

Here is a dumb question: When you directly connect to a Linux PC, can you see all drives? Why Linux? Because router is Linux based.

One way or another is may be a limitation of the router's firmware.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Is there away i can get my RT-AC68U to read all of the hard drives being provided by https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V5ONPAW/?tag=snbforums-20
because it is only reading the first hard drive.

What are we meant to be looking at? That link just shows me a couple of JBODs with SATA connections. The router doesn't support SATA.

EDIT: I see there is another version of that product that appears to include some sort of USB interface. If it is presenting the drives as individual devices attached to a USB hub then you will probably experience to problem you described. The router does not support USB3 hubs. IIRC people have reported success using hubs using the router's USB2 driver, so try that instead.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...67-is-now-available.40191/page-13#post-338268

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

What are we meant to be looking at? That link just shows me a couple of JBODs with SATA connections. The router doesn't support SATA.

EDIT: I see there is another version of that product that appears to include some sort of USB interface. If it is presenting the drives as individual devices attached to a USB hub then you will probably experience to problem you described. The router does not support USB3 hubs. IIRC people have reported success using hubs using the router's USB2 driver, so try that instead.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...67-is-now-available.40191/page-13#post-338268

It does the same thing despite the usb port chosen.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Here is a dumb question: When you directly connect to a Linux PC, can you see all drives? Why Linux? Because router is Linux based.

One way or another is may be a limitation of the router's firmware.

I have never experienced this on my linux setup. Linux for me has always been out of the box 100 percent reliable for me. And I have always been able to access all hard drives on it as well. Including this one.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Have a look at the messages in the router's syslog at the time that you plug the device in. It should explain what is going on.

 

[ApexRon]

I have never experienced this on my linux setup.

If you are able to see all three drives with a single USB3 connection on another Linux platform then it is a limitation of the router's firmware.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Have a look at the messages in the router's syslog at the time that you plug the device in. It should explain what is going on.

This is worth investigating I will check it out.

 

[ApexRon]

Another approach from a telnet session with router:

cat /proc/mounts​

Among other results here is my hard drive with two partitions:

/dev/sda3 /tmp/mnt/sda3 thfsplus rw,nodev,relatime,umask=0000,uid=0,gid=0,nls=ut
f8,readahead=1M 0 0
/dev/sda2 /tmp/mnt/sda2 thfsplus rw,nodev,relatime,umask=0000,uid=0,gid=0,nls=ut
f8,readahead=1M 0 0​

See if the drives are seen with that command.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Another approach from a telnet session with router:

cat /proc/mounts​

Among other results here is my hard drive with two partitions:

/dev/sda3 /tmp/mnt/sda3 thfsplus rw,nodev,relatime,umask=0000,uid=0,gid=0,nls=ut
f8,readahead=1M 0 0
/dev/sda2 /tmp/mnt/sda2 thfsplus rw,nodev,relatime,umask=0000,uid=0,gid=0,nls=ut
f8,readahead=1M 0 0​

See if the drives are seen with that command.

i did Fdisk -l and it only showed 1 drive. The funny thing is I can plug a seperate usb 3.0 hub up to the usb 3.0 port and it will seperately show each hard drive one by one by one, but this device still will only display as showing only 1 hard drive vs the four that are inside it. I do not believe it is a compatibility issue the router has. I think it is a compatibility issue the built in firmware on the enumerator the usb device uses.

 

[ApexRon]

i did Fdisk -l and it only showed 1 drive.

Looks like we're done. Just not supported.

I believe I read that the USB support is part of the ASUS kernel, if that's the case then you will have to wait until ASUS enhances. @RMerlin

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

I am half attempted to test the esata adapter to usb 3.0 piece I have and see if the adapter can properly seperate the signals to be passed to usb 3.0.