I have recently converted an old HH5 to OpenWRT, and have now flashed the latest stable version 19.07.02. I wanted to check the nand backup so I need the USB port to work. I was surprised that it doesn't work by default and followed this guide:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/usb-drives-quickstart
This was mostly OK but the format of the USB didn't find it, and neither does it mount.
This is the kernel log - last few lines.
2859.915919] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2859.922085] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 2860.932071] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 1532 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 2861.518935] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7774208 512-byte logical blocks: (3.98 GB/3.71 GiB)
[ 2861.525983] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2861.529913] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
[ 2861.535815] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2861.552460] sda: sda1
[ 2861.561073] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
This is the status:
root@OpenWrt:/# ls -al /dev/sd*
brw------- 1 root root 8, 0 May 6 13:51 /dev/sda
brw------- 1 root root 8, 1 May 6 13:51 /dev/sda1
Manually mounting doesn't work either.
I have tried various USB sticks and also different flash options.
Any ideas, as I wasn't expecting a big problem as it worked OK for the initial install.
Thanks
Richard