From r52369 I updated to r52411 (which was pulled). I still had the fault under this version.
Then I updated to r52432, which as we all know was very broken.
I then rolled back to r52242, and suddenly the router has been up for 4 days with no issues. (I chose this version as I had noticed ecg mention it had been more stable for their R7800)
The only other possible difference is my 2 USB drives in the router are now in different ports.
Initially my USB with my file share on was in Port 1 and the drive with my Swap Partition and /Opt (Entware) partition were in Port 2, but these are now reversed.
At the moment where everything is working as perfectly as I could wish for, I am loathed to go trying to replicate the fault again to see which of the above was the reason for it.
Interesting. When the router eventually does need a reboot, I will try swapping the USB drives back around.
Both drives are USB 3.0, and I didn't realise that had potential issues as well. I am running both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, but so far that seems to have been OK.
Previously I had found the router preferred some USB drives more than others, but like I say, suddenly I seem to have a setup that is working again.
I honestly don't know if I had swapped the 2 drives around when this problem started occurring.
I guess actually if it does turn out to be a USB issue, I could just partition up a sizeable eSata drive with a Swap Partition, EXT4 OPT Partition and EXT4 Data Partition. That would solve that issue moving forward.
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 21:32 Post subject:
Back in the days, all my attempts to use R7800 x2 USB ports at the same time, after x amount of time, something was happening.....never tried the sata port, neither x1 usb port and x1 sata-port combination...currently only use x1 USB port only..if USB is USB 3.0, i used long extinction, but so far only USB 2 thumbs drives around...I have one Linux laptop for NAS with lots of hdd's, not using router for NAS, too slow...thumbs drives all ext2, hdd ext3 or 4 _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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I got brave and decided to switch off, swap USB drives around and try again. Sure enough the errors started happening almost immediately. Put them back, and it's fine.
So yes, somehow using both USB ports does seem to cause issues on the R7800. Luckily for me they work in one order, but not the other.
