Ok we'll try this.. WRT610n V1... Seagate 500Gb external drive on the storage link..

have the above... it works .. sort of..
when the drive goes to sleep, around 1 hr. the router will 'drop' the connection to the drive. if i try to access the drive when it's asleep the drive will not wake up. have tested the drive connected directly to the USB port on my computer. If asleep the drive will wake up when i access it.
The only way I can get the drive to wake up is to power down the drive then power up the drive and do a power reboot of the router.... NOT the way the this should work..
anyone out there with any clue as to a fix.. tried the online chat w/linksys and it's like talking to my granddaughter.... she's three...

well that might work if there were a way to turn off the sleep mode in the drive.. thou I have no idea how that could be done.  I have no access to any setup options on the drive..
but if the router could wake up the drive .... it should be able to....  the drive works fine if i connect it to a computer... i.e. drive goes to sleep in about 1hr if I don't access it.. the computer can even sleep.... when i go to work again and the computer wakes .. so does the drive..
It seems as if Linksys does not have the correct code in the firmware to wake a sleeping USB.drive.
to bad I spent the extra money on this router for the USB drive link.. it was a selling point for me.. now if it would just work as advertized..

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