For more than a year, I’m using my loyal NSLU2 as a fileserver. Recently I’ve added a 500Gb external disk to it, which is when the ‘issues’ started.. It formatted fine, booted fine, and I could transfer everything on it. However, after the first powerfailure, the second disk would not be available. Running fsck on it, and it usually worked.

Some powerfailures later (They’re common here :/), it started to annoy me. For no real reason, I had to reboot/scan a few times to get everything back to work. Shares showing up as “archive~2″, and being empty. Deleting and re-adding had no effect.. Furthermore, the shares on the -first- disk also broke down while the second disk was plugged in. The disk itself looks fine when connected to my laptop, so that shouldn’t be it..

I figured it might be a firmware issue. Unfortunately, Linksys does not offer a more recent version than 2.3R63 on their site. Google showed me rumors of newer firmwares in
existence. A little searching later, I found a 2.3R72 Beta release, which I flashed into the device. And instantly, both drives worked like a charm. Right. Lucky shot or not? I’ll know in a few weeks, hopefully :)