DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

flyboynm · 2007-05-05 22:06:45

I am trying to get my DSM-G600 to recognize an external USB hard drive, but when I plug it in and power on the HD and then the unit, the USB light never turns green nor does it recognize it to format it. The external enclosure is recognized by windows and I can partition it without a problem. (500GB SATA drive) My question is What am I missing? Shouldn't I be able to take an unpartitioned drive, put it into my external USB enclosure (it can handle SATA or IDE drives), power it up, plug it into the DSM-G600, power on the DSM-D600 and get it to recognize the drive and format it? If not, do you know of any utilities I can use in XP to format the drive in EXT2 or EXT3 so I can then plug it in to the DSM-D600 and get it to work with read/write permissions? I called DLink and they told me to just format it as NTFS and use it as read only, but that defeats the purpose in my opinion. I can't format it in FAT32 because my computer is already NTFS.

sala · 2007-05-06 00:25:27

You can format it to fat32 usind disk management! But I don't know what this all means "I can't format it in FAT32 because my computer is already NTFS".
You can also download some live linux distro and format your disk under live cd to ext3. Alternatively you can install telnet to your DSM-G600 and partition your disk manually, but this may be the hardest option in here.

flyboynm · 2007-05-07 03:26:05

Once a bootable drive is converted to NTFS, FAT32 is no longer available as a drive format option. Microsoft.com has info on it. I went to NTFS for file permissions a long time ago and haven't been able to format anything as FAT32 since then.

sala · 2007-05-07 09:05:02

flyboynm wrote:
The external enclosure is recognized by windows and I can partition it without a problem.

flyboynm wrote:
Once a bootable drive is converted to NTFS, FAT32 is no longer available as a drive format option.

How come you can partition your bootable drive in windows which is connected as external hard drive, this is getting funny
If this in not like it looks to be, then you can partition your external disks any file system you want, no mater the files system of your bootable drive.
But hell you can even format ext3 in windows if you have right partition manager, but windows disk management should to fat32 with no problem. In your case FAT32 may be not an option because windows disk management maybe don't like this big partition as fat32.

libbyh · 2007-05-26 07:37:44

I'm having the same problem. I don't want to format in FAT32 because I don't want to divide my 500GB hard drive into 32GB partitions, so let's please leave the NTFS/FAT32 discussion aside.

How can I get the DSM-G600 to recognize my USB drive and format it? The USB light is orange.

Last edited by libbyh (2007-05-26 07:38:55)

redeyedog · 2007-10-19 20:59:12

I had the same concern. The way I did it is to connect the USB enclosure with the drive already formatted to NTFS. Go to the tools setup from a browser. At this point, select the enclosure from the drop down box and click format. When format is completed, restart. Disconnect the enclosure. Remove the drive, reformat to NTFS from a windows computer. Slap it back in and connect it to the DSM-G600 it now reads and writes to the NTFS drive in the enclosure.

I know this makes no sense but I think the DSM-600 stores the information it needs for the USB drives on the main drive so that's why it works.

Of course, when asking Dlink about it, no help whatsoever!

I wish someone knew how to make it all NTFS!

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