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I got my wl-500gP yesterday. I configurated it and it works allmost great.
But when I tried to download something with "Download Master" I got the message "No device was found! Please check your network connection and try again", and I still get this error message. And my network connection is working. What shall I do?
phantasm
25-06-2006, 14:50
What is the type of your hard disk?
What partitions you have on it? (ext3, ntfs, fat32)
Connect disk to upper port and chect that is configured good in router.
Enable media server and download master in router configuration.
I have 100GB hard disk from Samsung with one ntfs partition. Only when i made two partition, one 32gb fat32 and rest for ntfs, download master found device. So maybe try with different partition and check what i wrote in the beggining.
kurzwellen
25-06-2006, 22:36
I had the same problem.
The problem was that I had an external casing with two extra usb ports build in.
I disabled the two usb ports but somehow Download Master expected there the harddisk on.
Always got the message No device was found!
I bought a new external casing without the two extra usb ports and build in the harddisk. Surprise Now download master jumped from offline to online and the terrible message No device was found was gone.
Download master WORKS now like a charm.:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
My lesson:
Never build in a harddisk in an external harddisk casing with a 6-1 cardreader or two extra usb ports. It gave me BIG trouble with Download master
It's a Maxtor 200GB disk in a usb 2.0 external casing. The box has no extra usb ports build in. It has one NTFS partition. I'll try to make one more partition.
phantasm
26-06-2006, 13:33
Try to make at least one fat32 partition, one ntfs partition is hard to find even in xp without service pack :). I've got my disk in case with 2 usb connectors but it works excellent connected with only one. It's a 2.5 100GB Samsung, and the external case is the one of the cheapest ;)
Okey, I'll try to make a fat32 partition then, but will I not be able to use the ntfs partition? :\
I made a 1GB FAT32 partition and tried Download Master again and got this error message:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a307/Blaster2k/printscreen/DownloadMasterError.jpg
("kan ikke koble til fordi målmaskinen avlso tilkobling" is norwegian and mean "Can't connect because the target refused connection")
So I tried to change from the lower usb port to the upper.. Same error message.
I have enabled download master from the web configuration page.
Please help me.
Okey, I'll try to make a fat32 partition then, but will I not be able to use the ntfs partition? :\
i had the same problem at the beginnig .
i changed my 1partition 320 Gb NTFS harddisk into 3 partitions 100Gb FAT32.
now i can use all the partitions without any problem.:)
i thried to change the harddisk in 1 FAT 32 and 1 NTFS partition.
but the problem was that i couldn't use the NTFS partition.:confused:
I saw the partition in the WL500gP but i couldn't read or wriite anything on the NTFS partition.
good luck
The wierd thing is that I can access the HDD from my network but I can't get it to work with download master, do you think it will work if I add one more FAT32 partition?
edit:
Is there ANY way I can get Download master work? The BitTorrent support was my main reason for bying this router :P
i had the same problem,i saw the partition and could access the HDD
i called yesterday with Asus germany.
they told me that the harddisk needed at least one FAT32 partition.
and that the first partition always a FAT32 partition must be.
i made a FAT32 and 1 NTFS partition.
but the strange thing was,that i couldn't write anything on the NTFS partition.
even i couldn't make a new folder in the share node list.
so i changed the NTFS partition into 2 FAT32 partitions
(2 partitions because i thought that the sice was to big for 1 partition)
,and it worked fine for me .the only problem is that there is a file sice limit with FAT32.
i hope this is helpfull for you .
sorry for my english(i'm dutch)
Your English is not bad at all =) I think my problem is that my first partition is a NTFS and not a FAT32, so I'll fix that. I think I'll make the partition to a EXT2 partition (should work with wl500gP). With EXT2 you don't get the file size limit :D
I will let you know if it works for me ;)
Antiloop
28-06-2006, 16:38
Your English is not bad at all =) I think my problem is that my first partition is a NTFS and not a FAT32, so I'll fix that. I think I'll make the partition to a EXT2 partition (should work with wl500gP). With EXT2 you don't get the file size limit :D
I will let you know if it works for me ;)
it's probably like peterr says..
he tells that Asus told him that the first partition MUST be a Fat32 partition, furtherway you will never be able (although not now) to write to the NTFS partition using one of those routers
this is a current limitation of Linux not of the router
first,i had also only EXT2.
i can tell you,it doesn't work at all.
I didn't try to make of the second or third partition an EXT2 partition.
maybe i will do it later.
Or is there someone else with an EXT2 partition.
What i mean:
first partition : FAT32
second partition :EXT2
okey, now I got one FAT32-partition(the first partition) and one EXT2 partition, and Download Master got status "online", BUT it still don't work one problem is that it seems like I can't chose to save files on the EXT2 partition, so I can't download files over two GB's. The other problem is that the torrents stands a very long time with status "queued".
I had the same problem.
thats why i've made only FAT32 partitions.
The second problem with the download master is that you can't shutdown the router / harddisk.
you must download the file in one time.
you can't say: i'll do the rest tomorrow.
you file will be gone in the Download master list.
Okey "Download Master" really sucks(The BitTorrent downloads are queued for no reason, you can't choose to download just some of the files the torrent contains, etc.). Is there any other BT-clients who can be used with wl-500gP?
Hi, yes I have the same opinion, but my experiments give me an answer.
If you want to say "tommorow", you can use Pause download.
If you want restart your asus, you can do it.
After restarting router, you see nothing in DM, but if you doubleclick on "wanted" .torrent file again, the file appear in DM.
After some time ASUS show you current status of download and continue with it.
DM works great when I can start it in Windows.
It somehow seems that when you let the network share be connected on windows startup, DM will not function.
Can anyone explain how DM works? Which resources doe it use, doe it use Netbios? Im trying to figure out what will make it work...
I had the same problem.
thats why i've made only FAT32 partitions.
The second problem with the download master is that you can't shutdown the router / harddisk.
you must download the file in one time.
you can't say: i'll do the rest tomorrow.
you file will be gone in the Download master list.
You can continue the download after resetting the router. Just add the .torrent file again and the download will continue.
I really hope ASUS is going to improve their torrent download. It's nothing Compared to Azureus.
angrykoala
22-12-2006, 10:42
Hi,
I am also experiencing the same problems as you guys. I have tried to partition the disk with one EXT2 partition (as described in the manual) and also one FAT32 partition. THIS DOES NOT WORK.
I've noticed that many are having success when using an EXT3 partition. I have not tried this yet. Anyone have any clues as to what I can do?
The bittorrent-support is one of the main reasons I bought this router.. Blast.