USB HDD (1.00.07) is read only?

[rattus]

I bought a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 (320GB USB 2.0 External Drive) and it came formatted with NTFS. When I plugged it into the N5200 (f/w 1.00.07) I couldn't access it via the webshare or samba.

After reading about lack of support for anything but FAT, I reformatted it FAT32 and bingo, I could see the files on it, at \usbhdd\sdd1\

However the volume appears to be read only, with windows clients complaining about insufficient rights or read only. The folder is shared a fully public, so the rights issue should be spurious.

Anyone else had this problem, or conversly, not had this problem and is happily writing to an attached USB drive? Any feedback would be useful.

My raid is rebuilding at the moment, but tomorrow I'll try it with some smaller USB mass storage devices and see if there's something funny about the format on the Maxtor.

Rattus

[omega]

Hi Rattus,

I think you're experiencing the problem we're already discussing here: thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=n5200installations&action=display&thread=1171381101

To my current understanding Thecus is doing the handling of USB disks still not correct, at least for FAT and NTFS disks....

I tried what you were writing and I can see the reason why you're not having the rights to write on your USB disk.
Just do an "ls -l /raid/data/usbhdd/sdd1" and you'll see that the "normal" user doesn't have write access to the directories or files.

Read in the thread I mention above the reply #6 and try to mount the partition yourself. The "umask=0" should give you full read/write access to your USB disk.

Andreas

EDIT: corrected the link in this post, it was wrong!

[rattus]

Sorry Andreas, which thread are you talking about, that link goes to a thread on jinzora. What's the name of the thread?

Thanks

Martyn

[omega]

Hi Martyn,

You're right, sorry.....

I got the wrong link, take this one and read reply #6: thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=n5200installations&action=display&thread=1171381101

Andreas

[rattus]

right, gotcha, thanks

Martyn