disk Seagate expansion not recognized by the mikrotik

RouterOS General
1

Hello all
i have my mikrotik RB2011 with ip x.x.x.x
i have connected i storage Seagate expansion for the cache on disk web proxy
but i have a issue

the disk not recognized by the mikrotik

before to connect the disk to mikrotik,
i have

  • formated that to fat32 format
  • add system routerboard usb set usb=mode=force-host

but not working

can you help me please ??

waiting your reply

Best Regards

2

Are there any logs?
RouterOS generally supports all mass-storage devices which Linux kernel support. I had some issues with Seagate USB<>SATA converters on Linux in the past (they were detected but no partition can be read).

3

hello,
thanks for your reply,

i don’t have the logs,
but when i do
"system resource usb print " i see my device connected but i can see that in the /System/Disks
first i have format my disk Segate to the fat32, this format before to connect to the mikrotik it is ok??

waiting your reply

Best Regards

4

Yeah, fat32 will be fine but ensure there’s a valid partition table and not fs on whole drive. Also ext4 filesystem will be better for RouterOS.
If you’re using linux connect the drive and type:

fdisk --list

Then you have to find your drive node, it will be something like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc.

Next reformat the drive:

fdisk /dev/sdX
Press "o" 
Press "n" and keep pressing enter for default values
Press "w"
Press "q" if program didn't exited
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1

Now you can plug the drive into mikrotik. If it’s still not detected try another drive, even a pendrive - like I said Seagate USB drives are problematic sometimes :frowning: