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Posted on 4 June 2008 @ 00:24

I have a Belkin Network USB hub. It connects to my network fine. I can run printers bi-directional just fine. I can access flash drives fine. The box indicates I can connect a USB hard drive for network storage.
Unfortunately, their documentation does not explain how to get Windows to see the hard drive. If I plug the usb drive into a computer, it shows up as an accessible drive with the next letter as it should. If I plug it into the hub, the hub connects to it, but Windows does not.
Any suggestions?

Enlightenment
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Posted on 4 June 2008 @ 15:03

Is the hub self-powered? You may run into power problems because a USB hard drive is consuming more than average power.

I had the same issues by the way, i also had a problem like this once which resolved by using thicker USB cables. A passive USB-hub might not be suited for a high power USB device.

If your USB device is 2,5" then you should have no problems by the way, these consume just a few watts. But 3,5" devices can draw 35W when spinning up.

If its not a power problem, does windows not see a device appearing, at all? Please check in the hardware devices list. Good luck. $:\)$

Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

yooooda
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Posted on 5 June 2008 @ 03:40

It is a 3.5" drive with its' own external power supply. The hub also has it's own power supply. Windows sees the hub and the hub sees the drive, but windows does not see the drive.

Enlightenment
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Posted on 5 June 2008 @ 11:45

Hm, i have no real answer. Perhaps there are hardware incompatibilities, or a driver-bug in Windows. All i can think of: install all Windows-updates.

Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

SirBlade
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Posted on 3 July 2008 @ 13:49

Sometimes windows isn't able to assign a driveletter to a usb-drive, can you see the drive in "Disk Magement"?

Flashdrives are usually formated as FAT32, maybe the drive is formated as NTFS and the HUB has problems with that?

How do you know the hub sees the drive?

Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.

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