Up to about 3 years ago, I ran a 1TB drive as network drive on my RT-AC66U, but I gave up after some months because of poor performance. I just installed a new (empty) POWERED 4 TB drive (200 MB left unallocated), formatted NTFS, and the drive is recognized, but stays listed as Unmounted. This is a common issue and I have tried all solutions that are given in this forum, without success. The only thing that I haven't tried is the mounting in Linux.
The router has the latest Merlin 380.70 firmware installed.
The router log:
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access LaCie 2Big Quadra v3 051E PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 7813904400 512-byte hardware sectors (4000719 MB)
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Nov 10 19:58:39 hotplug[31557]: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 usb: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:39 hotplug[31558]: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8 instead of kernel utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 syslog: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:40 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8 instead of kernel utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
I have talked to the Asus tech support, and for them the router can recognize up to 4 TB drives, and according to them there shouldn't be any issue.
I would appreciate any help in getting this drive to mount. I was planning to upgrade to the AC88U, but this router has the same ext disk specs as the AC66U. Do I have to change router brands in order to be able this 4TB network drive?
Thank you very much
The router has the latest Merlin 380.70 firmware installed.
The router log:
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 10 19:58:37 kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access LaCie 2Big Quadra v3 051E PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 7813904400 512-byte hardware sectors (4000719 MB)
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Nov 10 19:58:39 hotplug[31557]: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 usb: USB /dev/sda1(unknown) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:39 hotplug[31558]: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:39 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8 instead of kernel utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 syslog: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:40 usb: USB /dev/sda2(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8 instead of kernel utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: use builtin utf8
Nov 10 19:58:40 kernel: ufsd: unable to replay native journal on sda2
I have talked to the Asus tech support, and for them the router can recognize up to 4 TB drives, and according to them there shouldn't be any issue.
I would appreciate any help in getting this drive to mount. I was planning to upgrade to the AC88U, but this router has the same ext disk specs as the AC66U. Do I have to change router brands in order to be able this 4TB network drive?
Thank you very much