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[RT-AC66U] Unable to mount 4tb HD

Plovi

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[Realized I posted this in the "Asus N" forum instead of here. Reposting and deleting previous post.]

Consider myself completely amateur with this stuff, but trying my best. Exhausted google/forum search suggestions, I think. Any help from this forum would be greatly appreciated.

Quick background
1) Using Asus RT-AC66U router
2) Trying to set up 4TB Toshiba USB 3.0 7200 rpm external hard drive for media storage; HD does have dedicated ac adapter for power
3) Formatted HD as "exFAT" for compatibility with PC and Mac on network
[no option to format as Fat32, as I read that is impossible for a HD of this size]
[some places online suggest exFAT isn't supported for this; others say it is]
[reformatted numerous times with varying file allocation sizes: 512b, 1kb, 8kb]
4) Am updated to latest network firmware: 3.0.0.4.376_3754
[Consider myself too amateur to attempt the Merlin firmware; unless someone tells me it should fix this issue]
5) System Log doesn't give direct error message about failure to mount (see below), but rather that it is a "very big device" -- because of this, I tried formatting with a 3tb and 1tb partition
[the Asus "plug and share" page says it should support up to 4tb HDs]

Feel like I've exhausted the ideas that the internet suggests, aside from simply trying a different HD (perhaps one that is smaller?). Any other insight?

Here is the relevant system log:
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5438 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 7814037160 512-byte hardware sectors (4000787 MB)
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Mar 15 13:29:21 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0


Thank you for the time and help!
 

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