Hi Guys,
Looking for some help with setting up a USB share drive on my Netgear R7000 which I've flashed with Kong's DD-WRT firmware.
I am trying to setup a share drive (3TB Seagate) attached to the USB 3.0 port on the router. After reading a bit online, it seemed that the ext3 file system is significantly faster/better than the NFTS used by Windows, so I used a partition manager to format a primary partition in NFTS (500mb swap drive) and then did a logical partition as an ext3 being 2.7TB.
However, I can't seem to map the drive to my Win7 machine. When I map the 2.7TB drive, it shows up as a 20MB NFTS drive on my machine? I can map the 500MB file just fine.
I've tried installing some third party files that supposedly would allow read/write access to ext3 by Windows 7, but these only seem to work when a ext3 drive is connected directly to the Win7 machine.
Here is what the USB section shows in my DD-WRT firmware.
However, when I connect to \\192.168.1.1\jffs, all I get is a 20mb drive shown with a "sda5" directory in it instead of the 2.7TB directory the above file shows.
Just looking to try and setup this drive to put my personal blurays on so I can watch them via XBMC.
I'm about ready to give up and format in NTFS, but if ext3 is that much more superior/faster, wanted to stick with it if possible?
Thanks!
Looking for some help with setting up a USB share drive on my Netgear R7000 which I've flashed with Kong's DD-WRT firmware.
I am trying to setup a share drive (3TB Seagate) attached to the USB 3.0 port on the router. After reading a bit online, it seemed that the ext3 file system is significantly faster/better than the NFTS used by Windows, so I used a partition manager to format a primary partition in NFTS (500mb swap drive) and then did a logical partition as an ext3 being 2.7TB.
However, I can't seem to map the drive to my Win7 machine. When I map the 2.7TB drive, it shows up as a 20MB NFTS drive on my machine? I can map the 500MB file just fine.
I've tried installing some third party files that supposedly would allow read/write access to ext3 by Windows 7, but these only seem to work when a ext3 drive is connected directly to the Win7 machine.
Here is what the USB section shows in my DD-WRT firmware.
However, when I connect to \\192.168.1.1\jffs, all I get is a 20mb drive shown with a "sda5" directory in it instead of the 2.7TB directory the above file shows.
Just looking to try and setup this drive to put my personal blurays on so I can watch them via XBMC.
I'm about ready to give up and format in NTFS, but if ext3 is that much more superior/faster, wanted to stick with it if possible?
Thanks!
