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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-860L => Topic started by: WhiteLighter on April 25, 2017, 03:41:33 PM
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I am not able to access my new external 3TB drive at all. It actually doesn't even show up as being connected. Is this a limitation of the router itself? Plugging in a small 16GB USB stick shows up but not this drive. Was hoping to use it as a media device to share movies. My FW is 1.08. Region Canada.
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Router USB HDD Max Size FAQ (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=58799.0)
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Thanks for your reply. I found that article after doing a little more research. I suppose I should have done my homework before purchasing this external HDD. I have connected it to the PC and networked it that way. The unfortunate thing about that is the computer will always have to be on. How would a USB to ethernet adapter help this problem? Would I connect the USB drive to the adapter, then connect a LAN cable from it to the router in one of the free slots? how would that work?
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I presume that may work. I have not tried one personally though. You'd have to check with the mfr of the adapter to see what they support and how it would be used.
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I don't think that will work. Google "connect harddrive to ethernet port".
This is the very first link that I found, and it says NO. And they mention the type of device you would need.
I have to USB 3.0 to ethernet port adapters, but I only use them on computers. I'm confident they would not work in the router.
https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet/Installing-an-external-hard-drive-using-a-USB-to-ethernet/td-p/775917
(https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet/Installing-an-external-hard-drive-using-a-USB-to-ethernet/td-p/775917)
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Ya, would need to find a adapter that is self managed and has it's own system. Not sure if anything is like that is available.
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I thought about partitioning the drive into 3 separate 1TB drives. Upon trying this I noticed that this drive is set up as an exFAT drive. Once I converted it to NTFS I tried reconnecting it to the router. Voila. The router now recognizes the 3TB drive as 2.9 and all is good.
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Cool! 8)
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Glad you got it working. Thanks for posting this information. Hope it maybe helpful to future users. Enjoy. ;)