GL-B1300 - Seagate External HDD

Matais1 · May 30, 2020, 12:57am

I am trying to use my External HDD on my new GL-B1300 for filesharing, however it doesn’t seem to be working. My router works with small usb drives but not this one.

My external HDD does work with my GL-MT300N-V2 however, so I’m not sure why it isn’t working with the GL-B1300.

Here are the system logs.

Fri May 29 23:42:40 2020 kern.warn kernel: [  670.451835] hif_disable: Xhif_napi_destroy: NAPI 6 destroyed
Fri May 29 23:42:40 2020 kern.warn kernel: [  670.457343] hif_napi_destroy: no NAPI instances. Zapped.ath_sysfs_diag_fini: diag_fsattr 
Fri May 29 23:43:00 2020 kern.info kernel: [  690.580126] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
Fri May 29 23:43:04 2020 kern.info kernel: [  694.548695] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd
Fri May 29 23:52:15 2020 daemon.info hostapd: ath1: STA 04:d3:b0:4d:3f:73 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri May 29 23:54:10 2020 kern.info kernel: [ 1360.425011] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
Fri May 29 23:54:12 2020 kern.info kernel: [ 1362.798588] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci-hcd
Sat May 30 00:02:15 2020 daemon.info hostapd: ath1: STA 04:d3:b0:4d:3f:73 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)
Sat May 30 00:03:21 2020 daemon.info hostapd: ath1: STA 58:2f:40:14:3f:1e IEEE 802.11: associated
Sat May 30 00:03:21 2020 daemon.info hostapd: ath1: STA 58:2f:40:14:3f:1e RADIUS: starting accounting session 6240ECF22480A67A
Sat May 30 00:03:21 2020 daemon.info hostapd: ath1: STA 58:2f:40:14:3f:1e WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Sat May 30 00:03:25 2020 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2285]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) 58:2f:40:14:3f:1e

limbot · May 30, 2020, 1:09am

Are you powering the USB Drive with an external power soure? Could be you’re “overloading” the B1300 USB port power.

Matais1 · May 30, 2020, 2:16am

No I’m not, but it worked on my little mango router fine. Is there a way to check for certain this is the issue before I got out and buy a powered usb hub?

alzhao · May 30, 2020, 12:18pm

Can the router find /dev/sda etc

Matais1 · May 30, 2020, 12:53pm

Thanks for the help, I’m a complete amateur at this please can you guide me on how I check that.

alzhao · June 1, 2020, 4:50am

Can you pls ssh to the router as SSH to the Router - GL.iNet Docs

and use the following command to get output

dmesg
ls /dev/

Matais1 · June 1, 2020, 10:23am

Thank you for the support guys.

Here;s the log from ssh: =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2020.06.01 17:19:33 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=l - Pastebin.com

It did get the message at the end

root@GL-B1300:~# de[J/dev/sda
-ash: /dev/sda: not found

alzhao · June 1, 2020, 10:28am

can you please type the command correctly?

Matais1 · June 1, 2020, 1:01pm

Please can you clarify what I did incorrectly. the command you said was formatted as 2 lines so I wasn’t sure what to do

Johnex · June 1, 2020, 8:43pm

First paste this:

dmesg

press enter, then the next:

ls /dev/

and press enter.

Matais1 · June 1, 2020, 11:19pm

Thanks, here:

alzhao · June 2, 2020, 2:02am

Does your HDD has a separate power supply? If yes can you pls use and try. Seems that the router does not support enough power.

Matais1 · June 2, 2020, 2:12am

No it doesn’t have an external power supply, I have ordered this cable that splits data/power. Think it should work?

alzhao · June 2, 2020, 2:32am

I think it should work. Pls try and let me know.

Matais1 · June 8, 2020, 10:07am

Using that wire but still no luck

Matais1 · June 8, 2020, 10:13am

I have a GL-MT300N-V2 as well and it works perfectly on that…

alzhao · June 8, 2020, 10:43am

OK. Understood. Will get a HDD and try.

Matais1 · June 10, 2020, 12:36pm

Did you have any luck? I’m stuck right now.

realjohny · June 10, 2020, 11:47pm

Did you try with 2.5’’ or 3.5’’ HDD? I am thinking to use 2.5’’ SSD with SATA to USB adapter.

Matais1 · June 11, 2020, 2:12am

I’m trying to use a 2.5" HDD, SSD uses less power so I don’t think you’ll need any additional power, but may be wrong.