TomatoUSB

I am having problems with some hard drives that I have connected to the network. (I am not allowed to post links? says "Guests and low-karma users are not allowed to publish links on this site.")

Problem: I have a dual docking station with two hard drives in it. From time to time, the dual docking station disappears for several seconds. After it reappears, the hard drives are mounted again. This happens when there is any form of data transfer; examples: I am watching a movie off the network, or transferring files back and forth. The other hard drive connected (Acomdata) doesn't disappear/unmount, but the connection to it is lost when the other hard drives disappear.

Here are the devices I have:

• Thermaltake Dual HDD Docking Station USB3.0
  • 2 500GB HDDs are in the docking station
• External AcomData 500 GB HDD (doesn't dissappear)
• USB HUB w/ flash card reader
• ASUS RT-N16 with Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-088 K26 USB Mega-VPN

The Dual docking station and the AcomData hard drive are connected to the USB dock, which is connected to the router.

Solution(s) I have tried, but didn't work:

• I have tried pekkis61's solution from the "USB drive disappears" thread, but it doesn't work

Any suggestions?

EDIT: When I look at the logs, I see Buffer I/O errors, etc. Not sure if it means anything, but these problems only started occurring when I started using this docking station.

I have docking station USB 2.0. Same issue that is why I decided to abandon it.

1) Do you have USB1.1 enabled? If not, enable it.

2) Does everything have separate power, or are they powered from the router?

Mine is diagnosed while connected to win7 notebook. I would say poor design in the docking station that causes it.

Regarding USB HUB with power. I don't have any problem connecting 2 hard disk external and 3G modem at the same time. USB 1.1 is enabled.

I think I may be having a similar problem…. I have not been able to see the logs. However when I am transfering large files 2GB+ to a WD500GB Drive connected to my USB on my Asus RT-N16 I notice that my Load becomes large over 2.0 it is at this time that the drive will sometimes disappear as well. I tried to reboot the router but the drives do not reappear. The only solution that I have found is to reflash the router. I am using Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-092 K26 USB AIO

@ ray123

1. Yes, USB 1.1 is enabled with OHCI. UHCI is grayed out and therefore disabled.
2. Yes, every device connected to the router has its own power, including the USB hub.

I have similar issue with my router (Asus RT-N16 tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-MIPSR2-104-PL-AIO). I'm using transmission, I have attached HDD (WD 320GB without external power supply). I noticed that from time to time my HDD is unmounting itself. The only solution to have hdd working again is to reboot the router (I didn't try console commands).

same problem here, but only on one router. I have 2 Asus RT-N16 with Shibby tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-MIPSR2-108-AIO installed. Both routers have the same Toshiba 100GB harddisk installed. One is working perfectly! The other one has disconnects under heavy disk load (ftp or torrent).

Only solution is a reboot.

A developer can contact me to find the bug. As I have the same setup with one working and one not.

Thanks

Andy

ok, both routers have this problem. hdd's are ext3 formated.

The driver crashes.

I sometimes scratch my head and wonder why the router is labelled ROUTER and not NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE