Hello,
I'm trying to use an external usb hard drive attached to a Linkstation LS-CHL-V1 (1.0TB).
The external drive works fine as I am able to read/write at will once it is mounted.
The problem is that everytime I plug the usb drive (or whenever the Linkstation turns itself on) the linkstation performs an entire copy of the usb drive contents into itself.
This may sound as the "Direct Copy" function doing its job, however, I do not want or need this copy and of course I am not pushing the function button after connecting the drive, (as I mentioned, this happens even when the unit turns on itslef).
What is annoying is that the target folder is inside the "source" folder of an scheduled backup, precisely targeted into the usb drive. Therefore, everytime the unit turns itself on, it will copy all the usb contents into a folder which will be copied back again into the usb drive once the "intentional" backup starts. Wasting a massive amount of disk space in both the usb drive and the linkstation by doing this recursive copies.
If this is indeed the direct copy function working by itslef, Is there a way to turn it off? I can only move the target folder. I even tried to use the usb drive as the target folder, but it would "remember" the last setting of a linkstation folder and keep using it for the self-backup.
I have the firmware 1.21 (which is the latest for this model). and the external drive is also a buffalo drive (an old 250gb model, not a linkstation). Of course I also retried restarts and so.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
