Maping an external drive on CGN3 Gateway

[Brit_Chic]

So I checked and the hard drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and read and write set to everyone. So what does that mean... I mean where next would I check the sharing/permissions? Thanks!

[Datalink]

Are those permissions set with the hard drive connected directly to the mac, or to the modem?

Edit:  The other question that I can't answer is whether or not Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is compatible with the modem's operating system.  Do you happen to have an unused USB2 flash drive around?  If so, consider the following experiment.  Connect the flash drive to the modem, set the mapping and permissions and try to format the drive, thru the modem, to ext3.  If the formatting fails, connect the flash drive to the mac, format the drive to ext3 and then connect it to the modem once again.  Then try some experiments in terms of file access, reading, writing, etc.  

What size is the hard drive?  Just curious at this point. 

[Brit_Chic]

Both.. because the image I posted shows that it is shared enabled on the router (admin, USB) and then the hard drive itself is read and write for everyone. I just looked at it in disk utility and it also says the drive is writeable.  I'm really surprised that this isn't a more common issue with a fix. Baffled.

[Brit_Chic]

ok sounds good, will try that ... the size of the drive capacity is 999 GB and the available is around 552

[KerryForest]

I was one of the early contributors to this thread. Initially I had problems similar if not identical to yours. Then all of a sudden I could get access to all the external drive files from my PC (Windows 10). I'm sure you've tried rebooting the modem so the only thing I would suggest is borrow a  PC and see if it has the same problem. That may not solve your problem but might allow you to pin it down. By the way my external drive is formatted NTFS and the modem status page looks the same as yours.

[Brit_Chic]

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@Datalink wrote:

Are those permissions set with the hard drive connected directly to the mac, or to the modem?

Edit:  The other question that I can't answer is whether or not Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is compatible with the modem's operating system.  Do you happen to have an unused USB2 flash drive around?  If so, consider the following experiment.  Connect the flash drive to the modem, set the mapping and permissions and try to format the drive, thru the modem, to ext3.  If the formatting fails, connect the flash drive to the mac, format the drive to ext3 and then connect it to the modem once again.  Then try some experiments in terms of file access, reading, writing, etc.  

What size is the hard drive?  Just curious at this point. 

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So I looked at formatting the drive to ext.3 as you suggested but I don't see an option for that specifically... I see exFAT?

[nidobupo]

I have a 2500Gb external HDD and my hitron CGN3 router will not detect it, I have already found that the router requires NTFS format on the drive, I have formatted it to that, It read the drive earlier in the day but i disconnected it to move some stuff around, now it wont detect the drive, I currently have it connected to my laptop and its working fine, Any idea`s or solutions ?

[nidobupo]

I have a 2500Gb external HDD and my hitron CGN3 router will not detect it, I have already found that the router requires NTFS format on the drive, I have formatted it to that, It read the drive earlier in the day but i disconnected it to move some stuff around, now it wont detect the drive, I currently have it connected to my laptop and its working fine, Any idea`s or solutions ?

[Datalink]

@nidobupo if you haven't already done this:

1.  reboot the modem and then connect the drive to see if the modem detects the drive; or

2.  power down the modem, connect the drive, power up the drive and then power up the modem to see if the modem detects the drive.  

Fwiw, there were discussions long ago about the format for external drives.  One of the ideas that arose was to format the drive in an EXT 4 format, possibly with journalling enabled.  If you ever have trouble with the NTFS format, consider EXT 4 with journalling.  

Fwiw, take a look thru the thread where your post has been moved to.  Don't know, but it might be worth the read thru. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=ext4+journaling&rlz=1C1PRFI_enCA774CA774&oq=ext+4+with+journalling&a...

[pamanatidis]

Got a new rogers account and trying to setup a hard drive in the usb port.  Modem recognizes the usb drive but the file link provided on the "USB Storge" page returns a file not found error in the web browser.   

Any suggestions?

Pete