Live station: USB disk continuously used

[apaschou]

   

Usually, people are asking questions to solve some blocking issue. On my side, my HS-DHGL (Live) is working well (after having reflashed the firmware :-) but...

 

I connected a USB disk (formated as ext3) to the station. It is well recognized and I can read/write correctly on it. But there is one strange behaviour that may cause a rapid disk failure in the future... the issue is:

 

When the USB disk is connected to the live station, the USB disk is ALWAYS doing something (the green led of the disk is blinking and I can ear the head on the disc reading or writing). This led is never at the same state more than half-a-second. Consequently, my USB disk is always in use with the long-term consequence you can imagine.

I put the system on a network only composed of the HS-DHGL and a router. I also previously removed all backup scheduled tasks or any PCast settings, as well as disabled the printer server. So theoretically, nothing is accessing the USB disk. However, this didn't change anything: the USB disc is still accessed at least once per second.

 

How can we explain such behaviour? Do I have a way to know what is really done on this USB disc? and why ?

 

If I connect this ext3 disk to my linux, I don't have such behaviour... if I don't use it from linux, then the led is not continuously blinking. So the only conclusion is that the HS-DHGL is doing something... if anybody can help me on this subject, I would very much appreciate it.

 

Best regards.

[PCPiranha]

Try disabling the media server

[cessna1466u]

   

Did this solve the problem? I plan on getting the same NAS and using an attached usb drive for extra storage but I need the Server option on.

[pinksteady]

   

Bump!

 

I have the same problem. My USB hard disk (formatted XFS) is permanently busy when connected to the LinkStation Live. It is only configured as a backup and not made available through the media server so I don't know why the media server should have any influence over this. Secondly, disabling the media server isn't really a solution for those that need to use it.