External USB 3.0 Hard Drive's LED Light Color.

[daviddrf]

Hello to all. I've hot an external USB 3.0 hard drive from Western Digital. When I connect this hard drive to my blue USB 3.0 PC port with its original USB 3.0 wire/cable there's a blue LED light in the top of the hard drive. If I connect the same hard drive with the same wire/cable to the USB 3.0 port on my Asus RT-AC68U the LED light starts to blink but in white color, not blue. Does it mean that the speed of the hard drive would be as if the hard drive were USB 2.0 instead 3.0? Thanks for reading me and goodbye.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Hello to all. I've hot an external USB 3.0 hard drive from Western Digital. When I connect this hard drive to my blue USB 3.0 PC port with its original USB 3.0 wire/cable there's a blue LED light in the top of the hard drive. If I connect the same hard drive with the same wire/cable to the USB 3.0 port on my Asus RC-AC68U the LED light starts to blink but in white color, not blue. Does it mean that the speed of the hard drive would be as if the hard drive were USB 2.0 instead 3.0? Thanks for reading me and goodbye.

That would be explained in the user manual for this drive.
I doubt the router controls the color of an LED on external devices.

 

[daviddrf]

That would be explained in the user manual for this drive.
I doubt the router controls the color of an LED on external devices.

LoL...In the "user manual for this drive" is written that blue LED color means an USB 3.0 connection and white color means USB 2.0 connection. If I plug my drive to an USB 2.0 port in my PC then it comes the white colour LED on the external hard drive, not the blue one...The question is why is this happening on the USB 3.0 port of the Asus RT-AC68U (not in the USB 2.0 port of it).

 

[thelonelycoder]

Then what does the Syslog to say about that?

 

[daviddrf]

Then what does the Syslog to say about that?

Jul 28 11:23:29 dropbear[9035]: Login attempt for nonexistent user from 37.53.75.155:3624
Jul 28 11:23:29 dropbear[9035]: Exit before auth: Exited normally
Jul 28 11:27:56 dropbear[9037]: Child connection from 59.45.175.64:43759
Jul 28 11:27:59 dropbear[9037]: Exit before auth: Disconnect received
Jul 28 11:36:10 dropbear[9043]: Child connection from 59.45.175.86:54823
Jul 28 11:36:13 dropbear[9043]: Exit before auth: Disconnect received
Jul 28 11:36:41 kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12
Jul 28 11:36:42 kernel: scsi10 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Jul 28 11:36:43 kernel: scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     TOSHIBA  External USB 3.0 0    PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Jul 28 11:36:43 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk.......ready
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel:  sda: sda1
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Jul 28 11:36:47 hotplug[9069]: USB /dev/sda1(ntfs) failed to mount at the first try!
Jul 28 11:36:47 usb: USB /dev/sda1(ntfs) failed to mount At the first try!
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: tntfs info (device sda1, pid 9080): ntfs_fill_super(): fail_safe is enabled
Jul 28 11:36:47 kernel: tntfs info (device sda1, pid 9080): load_system_files(): NTFS volume name 'HDTB320EK3CA', version 3.1 (cluster_size 4096, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE 4096).
Jul 28 11:36:49 syslog: USB ntfs fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/HDTB320EK3CA
Jul 28 11:36:49 usb: USB ntfs fs at /dev/sda1 mounted on /tmp/mnt/HDTB320EK3CA.
Jul 28 11:36:50 rc_service: hotplug 9069:notify_rc restart_nasapps
Jul 28 11:36:50 iTunes: daemon is stopped
Jul 28 11:36:50 FTP Server: daemon is stopped
Jul 28 11:36:50 Samba Server: smb daemon is stopped
Jul 28 11:36:50 kernel: gro disabled
Jul 28 11:36:51 Timemachine: daemon is stopped
Jul 28 11:36:51 miniupnpd[8988]: shutting down MiniUPnPd
Jul 28 11:36:51 kernel: gro enabled with interval 2
Jul 28 11:36:52 Samba Server: daemon is started
Jul 28 11:36:53 miniupnpd[9116]: HTTP listening on port 35022
Jul 28 11:36:53 miniupnpd[9116]: Listening for NAT-PMP/PCP traffic on port 5351

 

[thelonelycoder]

This might be relevant:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/external-hdd-mounting-issues.40305/
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/p...on-rt-ac68u-with-asuswrt-merlin-380-59.33217/

 

[daviddrf]

This might be relevant:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/external-hdd-mounting-issues.40305/
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/p...on-rt-ac68u-with-asuswrt-merlin-380-59.33217/

I've been reading both threads and it seems that questions are not related to mine, sorry.

 

[john9527]

Go to Wireless > Professional for 2.4GHz and make sure 'Reducing USB 3.0 interference' is set to Disable (When enabled it forces USB 3 devices to run in USB 2 mode)

 

[daviddrf]

Go to Wireless > Professional for 2.4GHz and make sure 'Reducing USB 3.0 interference' is set to Disable (When enabled it forces USB 3 devices to run in USB 2 mode)

It worked flawlessly! Thank you a lot john9527! After setting "Reducing USB 3.0 interference" in "Wireless > Professional for 2.4GHz" from "Enabled" to "Disabled" now the LED light is blue instead of white as it was before...I didn't know this setting could interfere...Thank you a lot again and thanks to thelonelycoder too for your support.

 

[daviddrf]

At this momment I am doing some test copying files from and to the hard disk drive plugged to the router with the enhanced USB 3.0 connectivity (instead USB 2.0) and what a difference...Speed transfers are higher without doubt now. Thank you again for all your support.