TerraStation fails to detect USB Hard Drive

[AlanJR]

   

Hi,

 

I have attached a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent usb hard Drive to the TerraStation and it fails to detect it. Any suggestions?

 

Alan R 

[Paul]

Make sure the drive has its own power, and format the drive into fat32.  Once the unit sees the drive you can format it to XFS from the Buffalo station.

[AlanJR]

   

How? XP pro and Vist only allow formatting to NTFS.

and won't that limit the drive size to 4GB?

 

reagards

AlanR 

[Paul]

Then right click on My Computer and select Manage select storage. Under Disk Management you will find the partitions available on the drive and you will be able to partition and format them.

 

Once the drive is in FAT32 (a file system seen by Linux, Macs, and PC's) you can use the link station to put the drive in XFS (Linux only file format).  

[AlanJR]

   Done that. It still isn't seeing the drive.

[Paul]

Flash or update the firmware on the unit.  Then set it back to factory defaults (this will not cause data loss). leave the usb drive connected as the TS reboots.

[AlanJR]

   

Thanks Paul,

 

Moving it to another USB port and going through the shut down start up procedure as in th FAQ's has just got iti detected.

 

Many thanks and have a good Christmas