[SOLVED] External hard drive switches port on reboot

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16. März 2017 at 23:03 #27774

Hey all
My brother is running Squeezebox Server on a RPI, however following a reboot the connected media always appears on a different port, requiring locating where the media has moved to & then a rescan 🙁
The drive is a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5 inch External Hard Drive.
Here’s the config page, can anyone see anything wrong?
Filesystem Mount

Appreciate any help 🙂

Cheers, Paul

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Mbydeen

20. März 2017 at 12:28 #27801

Hi Paden,

From the screen shot that you sent, you just configured the mount point, but also you have to configure External Drives on Max2Play – mountpoints for USB-Storage.

Please take a look on this information:
Network Shares (e.g. shares on Synology Diskstation with SMB/CIFS) are mounted following the example:
*Path (IP or hostname and Path): for type cifs: //IP-ADDRESS/PATH
*Mountpoint on Max2Play (for usage in Squeezebox Server or XBMC): /mnt/mountdir/ Mountpoint must be a subdirectory in /mnt/ OR /media/ and will be generated, if it is not existing.
*Type: mostly cifs (in special NFS setups nfs)
*Options (user, password and other options for network share): e.g. user=name,password=pass,sec=ntlm,iocharset=utf8
*important: always add to the options sec=ntlm!
*Note on NFS-Shares: you must use another Path and no user credentials in options! Example: IP-ADDRESS:PATH or *:PATH

Under External Drives on Max2Play – mountpoints for USB-Storage
there is a list that shows all external storages and their mountpoints. You may access the devices by their path in Squeezeboxserver or XBMC/Kodi. Important: the maximum partition size is 2TB. If using larger disks you need to divide the disk space into partitions smaller than 2TB.

Best Regards,
Mohamamd Mbydeen

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22. März 2017 at 22:16 #27833

Hi Mohamamd, thanks for the reply, although I’m unclear as to what hasn’t been configured.
I’ve mounted the drives under:
External Drives on Max2Play – mountpoints for USB-Storage
Which in turn automatically populated:
Filesystem – mount network paths (Samba or NFS)
The „type“ automatically detected is vfat, could it be that the drive is not formatted in the correct format?
Like I said all works fine until a reboot.

Cheers, Paul

[Mbydeen]

Mbydeen

27. März 2017 at 14:46 #27871

Hi Paden

It could be the filesystem format is causing the problem, please try to change the file system form vFAT to CIFS or NFS.

Best Regards,
Mohammad Mbydeen

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24. Mai 2017 at 21:04 #29060

Thanks for your help Mohammad , reformatting the drive has solved the issue 🙂

Cheers, Paul