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Title: Shareport loosing connections with USB Self powered Hard Drive
Post by: dcopelandia on April 08, 2009, 08:08:47 PM

I hate to beat a dead horse as it seems there are allot of Shareport issues. However I could be connected to a USB Hard drive and transferring files and all of the sudden loose the connection. It has happened several times. This is all on the wired eithernet side. I will admit that I have the DIR-655 and one or two switches in the mix depending what eithernet cord i am plugged into. I am running Shareport 1.14, the last beta firmware without securespot. All machines in the network are running Vista.  The drive is a Maxtor one touch 750 GB.

Any Ideas why this would be happening. There are 7 computers in the mix and they all seem to encounter this problem at one time or another. Thanks for any hits on the head

Title: Re: Shareport loosing connections with USB Self powered Hard Drive
Post by: smlunatick on April 09, 2009, 09:02:26 AM

The Shareport USB port appears to not be a similar port to most PCs.  You might be able to fix this by adding a "powered" USB hub, since you have found out that the standard port is not providing enough power to the USB port.

Title: Re: Shareport loosing connections with USB Self powered Hard Drive
Post by: dcopelandia on April 12, 2009, 10:06:11 PM

The 750 GB drive is self powered by an AC power. I am not sure that is it, but nice guess. It is weird it happens on other PC's also.

Title: Re: Shareport loosing connections with USB Self powered Hard Drive
Post by: EddieZ on April 13, 2009, 02:43:19 AM

He was talking about the HUB....