Scheduled USB Disk Health Scan Settings Not Saved

[Neil Horowitz]

On my Asus RT-AC66U B1 router settings made for scheduled disk scans for connected USB disk drives have returned to Disabled every time I go back and check any settings I’ve made there. I am using Merlin 384.5 firmware. Has anyone gotten this feature to work and automatically run scheduled disk health scans?

 

[jasonpandora]

On my Asus RT-AC66U B1 router settings made for scheduled disk scans for connected USB disk drives have returned to Disabled every time I go back and check any settings I’ve made there. I am using Merlin 384.5 firmware. Has anyone gotten this feature to work and automatically run scheduled disk health scans?

I'm having the same issue, except the Health Scan runs daily despite setting it to Disabled. RT-AC86XU and Merlin 384.13. Anyone ever find a solution to this? Is it possible to SSH in and disable disk_monitor and if so how?

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Try setting these in nvram:

nvram set usb_path2_diskmon_freq=0
nvram set usb_path1_diskmon_freq=0
nvram commit

 

[jasonpandora]

Hi Ronald, thanks for replying, I entered those lines in SSH but didn't get any response. I'm a bit of a newbie to this do I enter it literally like you wrote or do I need to change path1 to the actual path (which is /dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/sda1 type thfsplus)

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Hi Ronald, thanks for replying, I entered those lines in SSH but didn't get any response. I'm a bit of a newbie to this do I enter it literally like you wrote or do I need to change path1 to the actual path (which is /dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/sda1 type thfsplus)

No, just paste them into ssh. Do you still get disk scans? I'm not sure if they require a reboot to take effect. I don't think so.

 

[jasonpandora]

Amazing, that worked! Thank you very much Ronald!

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Amazing, that worked! Thank you very much Ronald!

Glad it worked. Is there a reason you don't like the health scans? Unless you absolutely require 24/7 disk uptime, it is a good idea to let the scan run. It can fix corruption of the file system.
I run mine during off-hours when I'm sure my USB drives won't be needed. I only use mine for nightly backups.

 

[jasonpandora]

Glad it worked. Is there a reason you don't like the health scans? Unless you absolutely require 24/7 disk uptime, it is a good idea to let the scan run. It can fix corruption of the file system.
I run mine during off-hours when I'm sure my USB drives won't be needed. I only use mine for nightly backups.

Well the problem I was having is that my USB drive (Samsung SSD HFS formatted) keeps getting corrupted every few days. That USB icon turns red, and the Health Scanner shows that the index has a problem and keys are out of order. Another drive had exactly the same issue. Seems like a problem with the router. I read in some other forums that the Health Scanner might be causing this, possibly due to the way it ejects the drive before it does the scan. Going to try and not have it run and see if this stops the issues.

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

News to me that HFS is even supported. I don't have a Mac so I never paid attention. Looking in the gui USB/Formatting menu, I see it. Maybe it isn't very solid support.