[Hiro123]

Hi!

I'm running dd-wrt v3.0-r40270M kongat on a Netgear R7800 with an external 3tb WD Blue drive attached to the router.

For the network connection I'm using the dd-wrt GUI version of Samba, with read/write activated (smb.conf attached).

When connected to my windows PC I can write and read but when I connect it to the router I can only read. I tried to write on it over the network with an android and 2 Windows10 PCs.

I also tried an old 500gb drive with the same settings and everything worked as it should.

I formated the 3tb drive from NTFS to Ext3, same result. Several different drive tests found no problem with the drive.

Can anybody help me with this matter?

PS:
I found several similar posts that(I think) doesn't apply to my problem since I'm using the GUI version of samba and the small drive works.

[htismaqe]

Did you partition it MBR or GUID?

IIRC, several Linux distro's which would include DD-WRT can only support MBR partitions up to 2.2TB.

[Hiro123]

Thx for your reply. I used the GUID partition table.

[Hiro123]

Ok, I found a solution.

It was the HDD partitioning after all.

My solution:
Don't ever use a crappy partition software (I used MiniTool Partition Wizard)!
After using diskpart for NTFS and gdisk for EXT3 I could read and write on the HDD.

[videobruce]

Why on earth would you ever even think to partition a HDD thru a Network interface?????
I never even use USB for something as critical as that.

I doubt it was the fault of the software.