[SOLVED] Zyxel NSA320 Cannot mount NTFS drive/partition

[pedroren]

Hi.
I just installed archlinuxarm on my Zyxel NSA320, switched from a Pogoplug.

But haven't been able to mount/automount a NTFS partition (1.5 TB) located in a HHD on the second bay of the Zyxel.
I have tried with autofs and udevil. Tried adding a fstab entry through Webmin, but fuse raise the error "device not found".

When I try to manually mount a NTFS partition:
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt
I get the response:
fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

But modprobe fuse shows nothing.

What can I do?

Thanks

[raumzeit]

Probably your second hard drive is not enabled yet.
My NSA325 has two shell scripts started by a systemd service at boot time.
They enable the second drive:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ cat /opt/nsa325/enable_sdb.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# enables the correct gpi to activate the second harddrive on NSA325
#

#enable gpio 47
echo "47" > /sys/class/gpio/export
#switch gpio 47 into output mode
echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio47/direction
#turn it on!
echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio47/value
')
and turn the leds green:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ cat /opt/nsa325/enable_leds.sh
#!/bin/bash
#

/bin/echo 255 > /sys/class/leds/nsa320\:green\:sys/brightness
/bin/echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/nsa320\:orange\:sys/brightness
#/bin/echo ide-disk > /sys/class/leds/nsa320\:green\:hdd1/trigger
')

Have you tried this already?

[WarheadsSE]

That's probably the primary right there.

[pedroren]

Thanks, I found the problem, it was because there was an update to linux (i think) so I had a slightly newer uImage in rootfs/boot and newer libraries, but the real boot partition uImage (I got a separate boot partition, as the guides specify) was outdated.
So I copied rootfs' /boot/uImage to boot partition, and now I can mount the second HDD NTFS partition.

I noticed about the kernel using this post:
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1783
Using the commands:
uname -a
file /boot/uImage

Any guide about the leds? None of them are working.

Thanks

[moonman]

Whats the output of "dmesg | grep Machine"

[pedroren]

dmesg | grep Machine
shows
[ 0.000000] Machine: ZyXEL NSA320 2-Bay Power Media Server


I don't have any files in /sys/class/leds

[moonman]

That is the correct output. Im gonna have to investigate