TomatoUSB

Hi,

I got a WL500GP V2 with Tomato Firmware v1.28.8748 ND USB Ext on it.
There are 2 wichesters connected to the router:

• 500 GB for the optware and system thingies
• 1 TB for movies

Here are the symptoms:

• Copying any file from an EXT3 partition to an NTFS partition (on the other attached drive) causes corrupted files, like this
• Copying any file to another computer on the network is OK. Copying the file from this computer to the attached drive's NTFS partition is still good

How is it possible?
Although there's a workaround to this problem, it's giving me headache, cause the workaround is just not satisfying if you want to move GBs. I hope somebody could me.

• Had it happened with any of the previous builds?
• Does file copying between Ext3 partition and network computers, and between NTFS partition and network computers work fine in both directions all the time?
• Does copying files from Ext3 to NTFS partition always result in corrupted files? If not - are there any specific reproducible conditions (like file size > X MB) that cause the corruption?

If you can, try other combinations of 2 USB drives (HDDs and flash, different filesystems etc) - both attached to the router - and experiment with copying files between them. If your drives are attached directly to the router, try connecting them via USB hub (or - if you're using the hub now, try it without the hub). Maybe experiment with something else - the point is that to troubleshoot the problem and pinpoint a cause you may need to try many different things…

Wow, thanks for the fast reply!

• No previous builds for me … I'm new in this business ;). I had offical fw for a couple of days, Oleg for a week or so, and here I am with my first Tomato FW ever (much better than Oleg for me).
• Yes, it's working that way
• Always. No matter if the file is an image, video or a text file. The end of the files always got scrambled (checked on images and text files). Strange, but there isn't any problem after copying from NTFS to EXT3.

I'll try those, thanks for the tip!

Thank you teddy_b! I can't believe it. It's working!

500 GB System Drive was connected to the router directly.
1 TB Data Drive was connected through USB hub.

I've tried these settings:
- every drive is connected directly
- every drive is connected through USB HUB
AND IT'S WORKING! :D

I was curious … I did my last test: back to the beginning. It's working that way too :O.
I've been struggling with this issue for days. You made my day happy after all, thanks again!