AX80 v1 USB keeps appearing and disappearing
I just hooked up my new router yesterday. It seems to be working fine except for the USB support. I have a 8TB WD Red HDD in a USB3.0 enclosure. The drive has a single NTFS partition the full size of the disk, and is about half full. When I connect it, it is accessed for a couple of minutes. During the time it is being accessed, the USB storage page on the web admin interface says that htere are no USB devices connected. After the access light stops flashing, the drive appears on the USB storage page, the Samba share becomes accessible on the network, and I can mount it from my Linux laptop and my Windows laptop. Shortly after that, it disappears (from the network and the USB storage page), and appears to be accessed again for a few more minutes, then reappears on the UI and the network. This cycle keeps repeating.
According to the system log, I see Samba, ProFTPD, and MiniDLNA being stopped, and Samba and MiniDLNA being started immediately after, over and over again. Timing is inconsistent, sometimes it's 10 minutes between cycles, sometimes under a minute. Note that currently FTP and Media Server are turned off, only Samba is enabled.
Has anyone had any luck getting USB file sharing to work with this router, or have any advice of things to try? Firmware seems pretty old but the router insists it's up-to-date. Thanks.
Tony