TomatoUSB

I'm running Tomato Firmware v1.28.7496 MIPSR2-Toastman-RT K26 USB VPN. It's been working extremely well and without any issue for many months now. However, I just noticed today that I could no longer access the external drive. If I take a look at the logs I see this message multiple times every second: "router user.err kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: over-current condition on port 1."

I tried googling "over-current condition on port 1" to no avail. Does anyone here have any advice as to what the issue may be?

Sounds like a hardware problem, current (ie electricity) exceeding some threshold on one of the USB ports. Try plugging your hard drive into a different USB port if you have one.

yeah, good call. I should have mentioned that i tried plugging the HDD into a linux system and it works beautifully. however, what i had not tried was plugging a usb stick into the router. (e3000 by the way, so only one port). of note are: 1) the error message is continuous even when nothing is plugged into the usb port; 2) the usb stick did not work.

you may have destroyed that port or the power regulator chip, maybe even for both ports..