Originally Posted by
pcf111
I have seven external hard drives (formatted with NTFS) and a printer (connected to the PC via two USB-hubs), that I would like to share in the network via a wireless router. So I need a router that does all the 'normal' things, PLUS that it has one or more USB-ports where I can connect SEVERAL hard drives.
Does Asus have any router that can do this? If you connect several USB-drives to it, does it see them as different drives AND share them correctly? Can it read and write NTFS?
And if the original OS doesn't allow writing NTFS, are there any modified OS'es/patches that make it possible?
Or maybe someone knows about other routers that does all this?
Thanks!
I went to the optware site, and searched for NTFS. There was one package that matched:
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ntfsprogs_1.13.1-1_mipsel.ipk 16-Nov-2007 08:53 356K
That doesn't look all that promising. The Linux driver which can read/write NTFS filesystems goes by the name of ntfs-3g. Not ntfsprogs.
I did a google search for ntfsprogs, which lead me to this site:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php
This is hopeful:
We just have released ntfsprogs 2.0.0 with full read/write support!
It didn't look so hopeful when I saw that ntfsprogs was "various tools for managing ntfs" ... and that the driver which featured "fast, reliable, read/write, userspace" was called ntfsmount, which wasn't an optware package.
Also, when I looked again at the optware ntfsprogs package, I saw it was only version 1.13.1-1
Hence it looks like the answer to your question is: Sorry, but no. No read/write support for NTFS formatted drives at this time.