Well shortly after posting about how I got my router loaded with DD-WRT and had all my USB drives working I discovered that my USB drives were no longer working.<\/p>\n
After poking around a bit I found there were errors generated when the automount script was executing. In particular I was seeing:<\/p>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:\/opt\/etc# service automount status\r\ncannot touch `\/opt\/etc\/nomount': Input\/output error\r\nS35automount: Create \/opt\/etc\/automount\r\ncannot touch `\/opt\/etc\/automount': Input\/output error\r\nI can not write \/opt\/etc\/automount, abort<\/pre>\nWhen I went to the directory I saw the following (most files removed to keep the list short)<\/p>\n
root@BLT_ROUTER:\/tmp# ls -al \/opt\/etc\r\ntotal 1608\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Dec 12 18:20 .\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov 15 08:15 ..\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 5 2011 asterisk\r\n?????????? ? ? ? ? ? automount\r\n...\r\n?????????? ? ? ? ? ? nomount\r\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35782 May 5 2011 nzbget.conf\r\n-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 May 5 2011 p910nd\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 23 2012 php.d<\/pre>\nA quick search found this forum post<\/a> where it was suggested to Stop automount (service automount stop) and then delete the two files.<\/p>\n
This worked to delete the files, but when I rebooted the router only the \/opt share came up. I messed around with this for quite a while and realized that something wasn’t right with the USB drives. So I disconnected them from the router and rebooted the router. Next I unplugged the USB drives power cord (where I noticed that one of the drives was unplugged, probably from when I was adding setting up my media server<\/a>). After a short while I plugged in the drives power cord and the USB cable back into the router.<\/p>\n