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: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer August 28, 2013, 09:41:40 PM
Hi,

I've bought a LS421DE recently. Firmware has been updated to latest v1.11. I've managed to setup 2 1-TB hard disk in RAID1.

When I tried to plug in a 2-TB ext3 formatted USB hard disk (formatted & works in my old LS-WXL) into USB ports (both rear USB2 & front USB3), the drive does not show in the GUI. However, a 2GB thumb drive (FAT32 formatted) works in both USB2 & USB3 ports.

Since firmware v1.11 is meant for LS410, LS420 & LS421DE, is it possible that it is a bug on mounting USB drives in the 2 USB ports?

wafer
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: davo August 29, 2013, 05:01:40 AM
Is the USB using 2K sector sizes or 512bytes, as far as im aware this unit will work if the USB HDD is NTFS also (upto 2TB) so you can test this.
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: MikeRubin September 01, 2013, 02:20:03 PM
I am having the same trouble with a 2 tb EXT3 HDD connected to either USB port on my 421e. The drive works fine on my LSWV4.0, but does not show up at all in the drive tab of the HTML interface. I am certain this is a bug in the 421e firmware, as (1) I replaced my first 421e with a second one, which has the same issue, and (2) tech support told me that the two ports are on different buses. The odds of having two defective units, with two defective port buses apiece, are about equal to the odds of being hit with lightning, I'd think.

One thing in the OP confuses me, though: i cannot get FAT32 USB sticks to show up at all in the interface drive tab. Another thing in the reply confuses me: How does one change sector size if the drive won't even show up on the drive list?  I tried connecting an NTFS drive that I use with my PC, and it also failed to show up on the drive tab. Would I have to reformat the drive to 2k sector sizes on a PC rather than using the 421e drive tab interface?

In the OP's case, does the HDD show up in the drive tab but fail to operate or is it simply invisible to the firmware? As mentioned, it is the latter in my case, at least on NAS.  (It does show up in drive management on the PC.)
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer September 05, 2013, 08:55:24 PM
Hi MikeRubin,

My case is exactly like yours where both HDD & FAT32 USB stick do not show up in the drive tab. FAT32 USB stick can be seen in GUI, but HDD is invisible!

I'm 99% sure that it is firmware related because I can manually mount the HDD & manage to use it after root access!

wafer



: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer September 05, 2013, 09:07:37 PM
Is the USB using 2K sector sizes or 512bytes, as far as im aware this unit will work if the USB HDD is NTFS also (upto 2TB) so you can test this.

Hi Davo,

The 2TB WD20EARX uses 4KB physical sector size (but logical is 512 bytes). I'm not sure if it is the root cause!

Anyway, I've managed to manually mount the ext3 HDD in Shell. I can see it in remote terminals, but it is invisible in Buffalo's GUI.

wafer 
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: MikeRubin September 07, 2013, 12:29:31 PM
Thanks, Wafer. I don't have terminal skills, so I am not able to see or address any USB device at all.
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: davo October 14, 2013, 09:51:01 AM
As a matter of interest, is the USB device server enabled on your unit? I had to disable it on mine before it would be recognized in USB Drives section.
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer October 14, 2013, 11:45:50 PM
Hi Davo,

I have tried both USB Device Server "disable" & "enable". My USB harddisk is still not detected.

In fact, I've just plugged in a 2TB NTFS formatted USB external harddisk. Still no joy!

So far, I've tried NTFS, ext3 formatted. Still cannot be detected by the UI!

wafer
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: MikeRubin October 19, 2013, 12:52:16 AM
I have tried the same things as Wafer, but am having no luck with powered drives whether USB Device Server is enabled or disabled. 
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: rickyckk October 22, 2013, 11:16:08 PM
The Same problem occur. All usb HD drives cannot be mount to NAS. just can mount the flash drive only!
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: adsoFromOverlanders January 25, 2014, 06:01:19 PM
Indeed, I have been able to manually mount an external HDD connected to the front USB3 port

[root@LS421DE55C usbdisk1]# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                     10.0M         0     10.0M   0% /dev
/dev/md1                  4.7G    763.3M      3.7G  17% /
tmpfs                   249.0M     80.0K    248.9M   0% /tmp
/dev/ram1                15.0M    108.0K     14.9M   1% /mnt/ram
/dev/md0                968.7M    212.6M    756.0M  22% /boot
/dev/md10                 1.8T    159.1G      1.6T   9% /mnt/array1
/dev/sdc2               931.3G    681.6G    249.7G  73% /mnt/usbdisk1  <<<<

Can we raise a bug to Buffalo so that external HDD can be mounted automatically ?
cheers.

: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: cafrex February 20, 2014, 02:11:06 PM
Hello. Same problem

Model LS421DE
Firmware Version:   1.31-0.92
Serial Number:   80060334610913
   
-   USB stick 32Gb FAT32 working as    “USB Device Server” and “USB Drives”

-   USB Seagate Barracuda 1Tb 7200.12 + Sharxroom HDD docking station quickport XT USB 2.0 ---- > working as “USB Device Server”. Not working as “USB Drives”

I try in next formats in 512 Mb partitions and 1Tb(all disk) partitions:
•   dos partition table, NTFS Format.
•   dos partition table, FAT32 Format.
•   dos partition table, EXT3 Format.
•   dos partition table, XFS Format.
•   gpt partition table, EXT3 Format.
•   gpt partition table, XFS Format.

Any ideas
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer October 07, 2014, 09:01:01 AM
Firmware 1.31-092 does not fix the problem at all. I'm giving up on Buffalo...!
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer February 11, 2015, 02:29:48 AM
All,

Looking at the [Version History] file in latest firmware 1.34 released on 7Jan2015, Buffalo has not addressed the USB drive mounting bug yet...!

It is very disappointing!

wafer

[Version History]
Version 1.34
Bug Fixes
- Modified to deal with the OpenSSL programing vulnerabilities (CVE-
2014-3567 and CVE-2014-0224) that are also know as the POODLE (SSL 3.0)
vulnerability.
- Modified to deal with the OpenSSL programing vulnerability (CVE-2014-
0224) that is also know as the "CCS Injection" vulnerability.
- Modified to deal with the Samba security vulnerabilities which the
service was blocked by a CPU loop and CPU resource consumption, and a
denial of service may be effected because the CPU utilization will go up
to 100% (CVE-2014-0244 and CVE-2014-3498).
Version 1.33
Bug Fixes
- Improved Samba stability.
Version 1.32
Bug Fixes
- Modified to deal with vulnerabilities of Bash programming which allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-
2014-7169).
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: tammy March 14, 2015, 09:57:47 PM
Buffalo technical have to fix it . Pls update firmware ...
: Re: LS421DE cannot mount USB hard disk!
: wafer June 30, 2015, 10:16:20 PM
All,

I started this tread back in August 2013 with firmware version 1.11.

Has Buffalo been listening? I don't know, but I just see latest firmware 1.81 has been released in 2 days ago (29 June 2015). Here is what is written n the [Version History]...

[Version History]
Version 1.81
Added and Modified Features
- Improved recognition accuracy when connecting USB drives.
Bug Fixes
- Modified to deal with Samba programming vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0178 and
CVE-2015-0240)
- Fixed a bug where a backup job could not be added if the backup target folder
contains full-width spaces in its name.
- Fixed a bug where a shared folder, user, or group could not be created if its
name contains specific symbols.
- Fixed a bug where an invalid default gateway is configured when changing the
IP address on NAS Navigator2.

Does Buffalo finally fix the USB drive recognition problem...!? I don't know yet. Let me download the firmware & try it out. Stay tuned!