External HDD Exfat format
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My 7 TB external hard drive is formatted in Exfat so my mac and pc devices can read / write to it. When external HDD is connected to PC, the PC shows my HDD is formatted in Exfat. When HDD is connected to router's USB port, it shows it's formatted as NTFS. From reading other posts this is because the router doesn't support Exfat, only NTFS and Fat32.
When my apple devices try to write to it when the HDD is connected to router USB, apple devices see the HDD format as NTFS and can't write to it.
I read in others posts there is beta firmware that fixes this problem. Can I get access to this beta firmware? If not, I have no use for this router. if all my devices can't access the HDD USB port then it must be recycled.
Hardware: Archer AX50 ver.1.0
Firmware:1.0.11 Build 20210730 Rel54485(5553)
Hi,
A bit of additional information here.
The router does actually support exFAT, otherwise it wouldn't be able to read and write an exFAT formated disk at all.
The file system type reported for the network share is not that of the actual physical disk, but instead it is whatever Samba (the network file sharing software that is running on the router) tells the client when it requests this information.
According to the Samba manual the file system type reported by default is "NTFS", which TP-Link obviously opted not to change.
