I've had the Linkstation running for a while with other USB drives. I have a new Seagate Freeagent 1TB drive that I want to use with the Linkstation. I connected the drive and formatted it with the Linkstation's utility to native Linkstation XFS format. I began immediately having problems. Upon connection, a "usbdisk1" folder appears in the "pictures" folder on the Linkstation's drive. If you enter this folder, another appears, and another, and another... So you end up with: share->pictures->usbdisk1->usbdisk1->usbdisk1... for as deep as you care to go. If you copy any files to the actual usbdisk1, they are mirrored on the Linkstation's drive, again and again.... Also, when using the Linkstation's web interface, there is no option to create a share on the connected USB drive.
I have cleaned off the Linkstation's drive and reformatted it and the Seagate's drive multiple times with the same result each time. If I "disconnect" the usb drive through the web interface, I still get the mirroring effect on the Linkstation's drive.
Is the Seagate Freeagent simply not compatible?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Richard
PS. ROM version 2.1, workstations are XP and Vista, behavior same for all.
Message Edited by rwalter on 05-27-2009 02:02 PM