Network Storage unrecognized on 4.14.90 GL-SFT1200 Opal

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Hi, there seem to be an issue with the new Network Storage function introduced with one of the recent kernel update.

Not a single one of my USB flash drives are seen in the Disk Manager section. Clicking on the spinning icon to refresh does nothing. I’ve tried different file systems and even a powered external USB hub, still nothing. Not that it was an issue anyway: the internal LED of the flash drives turns on so I know that they do at least get power.

All the drives are correctly recognized and can be read and written without issues on any other device I own: linux laptop, windows computer, Android and iOS devices too.

As per this table the Opal model should in theory be able to share a normal USB stick.

I am using a GL-SFT1200 Opal router running kernel version 4.14.90 and OpenWRT 18.06 (I don’t think it has anything to do with it).

How can I help with figuring this out? Share the logs after specific actions?

Thank you in advance for the assistance.

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Hi,

You're right. According to the table, the GL-SFT1200 (Opal) on firmware v4.8 and later supports normal USB flash drives.

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Could you please insert one of the USB drives that works normally on other devices, then log in to the Opal via SSH and run the following commands:

lsusb
dmesg | tail -n 100
block info
ls -l /dev/sd* 2>/dev/null

Please also export the System Log from the router's Admin Panel after reproducing the issue, and send the command outputs together with the System Log to us via private message.

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Thank you for your cooperation and support.