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Need help please-FTP files to USB storage attached to CiscoE3000 route

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newbie23

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I have a strange problem.
I FTP'd files to my External Hard Disk attached to Cisco E3000 router and with My Network Places connected to the shared drive, I could see folders getting created and files coming into folders nicely - about 500 MB and about 90 files in all. It took about 10 minutes for all the files to come in and when I looked them up again through mapped drive, the folders show up as files and size as 0KB.

I look them up using Filezilla client and they show up as folders but they're empty.

I can delete these folders using FileZilla but I cannot delete from the mapped shared drive because I get a message "File / Folder could not be found".

I have no clue whats going on and where to look for answers. I don't even know if this question is suitable for this forum or I should be asking somewhere else.

Any help resolving this or in pointing me in the right direction will be highly appreciated !

Thank you !
 
Thanks for your reply seepy83. Yes I followed instructions on that document but the issue
did not go away.
I finally switched the External HDD to another one last night - similar capacity but Western Digital and its been working fine now. Looks like the hard disk was part of the problem.
 
Thanks Enigma102083. I ran all "Basic tests" in Seatools and all passed. I will run the advanced test only after I take backup of whatever I have on the hard disk.

In the meantime, the other replacements disk (WD) is still going strong after about 3 days of continuous use - Shared drive, Ftp using Filezilla from PC at work, FTP from Android phone using AndFTP.

And that leads me to believe either my old hard disk is too old (IOMEGA 250GB) or maybe not compatible with the Cisco Router or maybe just damaged like you said.

Thank you !
 
Yeah, FTP does wonky things to a filesystem when it doesnt work right. Typically you see what you saw when there's a permissions error, but an incompatible/dying drive could also cause similar behavior on one of those hack job faux NASes built into modern SOHO routers.
 
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