RT-AX86U - Seagate 5TB USB disk not recognised

[arias]

I'm well aware of logical partitions and how they work. As I said the 2TiB limit is on the disk size not the partition size.

Sorry I wasn't trying to insult your intelligence but my speculation was that a drive that was still using MBR and improperly formatted with one giant 5 TB NTFS partition would not be recognized by the router because of the 2 TiB limitations of MBR. I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Sorry I wasn't trying to insult your intelligence but my speculation was that a drive that was still using MBR and improperly formatted with one giant 5 TB NTFS partition would not be recognized by the router because of the 2 TiB limitations of MBR. I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing.

It doesn't matter how the disk is partitioned or formatted. It doesn't even need a valid partition table. The entire disk can contain all-zeroes or complete garbage. It will still show up as detected device on the Network Map page, albeit unmounted. As he is not seeing that the problem is more fundamental than a partitioning/formatting issue.

 

[arias]

It doesn't matter how the disk is partitioned or formatted. It doesn't even need a valid partition table. The entire disk can contain all-zeroes or complete garbage. It will still show up as detected device on the Network Map page, albeit unmounted. As he is not seeing that the problem is more fundamental than a partitioning/formatting issue.

Got it. Thank you for clarifying.