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| Thread ID: 121812 | 2011-11-15 01:49:00 | NAS attached HD on WRT610N keeps dropping connection to Win 7 PC | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 1243717 | 2011-11-15 01:49:00 | I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) connected to a Linksys WRT610N Router. I have attached a 320GB USB 5400 rpm hard drive to the router as NAS storage.The router is running the latest Linksys 2.00.01 build 15 firmware. I get frequent drop-outs when transferring large files. I've been trying to transfer a 4.36GB file to the drive from my PC. I've tried several times. At exactly the same time, with about 377MB to transfer I get a message saying 'There is a problem accessing Z: make sure you are connected to the network and try again'. I try again and it doesn't work, meaning I have to cancel. Any ideas? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 1243718 | 2011-11-15 02:50:00 | This isn't any help, But I have always found the USB storage from most routers to be flaky at the best of times. "Real" NAS devices usually have a Ethernet cable connecting, with a IP address for the device, that way its simply another node on the network. The transfer rate as well Via USB is slow compared to Ethernet. Assume you mapped a network drive, and set all the permissions for access for various users as per the manual ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1243719 | 2011-11-15 02:51:00 | Whats the 320 GB formatted in? FAT or other? If FAT, it maybe because FAT has a 4 GB file limit. Dont know if this applies to external hdd's tho | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1243720 | 2011-11-15 19:55:00 | Dont know if this applies to external hdd's tho Yep, it does. So if you're external drive is formatted as FAT or FAT32, you wont get your 4.36GB file on there without splitting it. You'll need to format it as NTFS - which may or may not be possible on a USB drive. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1243721 | 2011-11-16 02:27:00 | Re the file system on the drive -- If its windows 7 and its the wrong format on the external drive Eg: FAT32, W7 should throw up an error message. Just had the same thing, doing a new build, and the board wont see the LAN from the imaging software correctly, so I tried to transfer the image to a 8 GB USB drive - That was formatted in FAT32 -- See error message: 3375 Formatted as NTFS -- and it copies fine now. |
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