WRT350N Storage failures

I'm using a WRT350N (v1.03.2) with a Western Digital My Book Premium 320Gb Dual Interface (USB and Firewire). I'm having several troubles and wondered if anyone had gotten better results.
The router is working fine, and wired connections are rock solid. The wireless is flaky but more up then down since I've set it into G only mode. I'm working the wireless issues separately and will discuss this later after I have more data.
The storage is a problem though. I connected the drive as formatted from WD (FAT32) and was able to see the drive, and share the partition as "Media". Connections will work great for a little while. But after copying several large files to the drive it becomes unresponsive. The router still functions, but access to the share will hang and timeout. I can access the web interface but if I click on the "Storage" tab the application will lock up and never display the Storage page.
I've tested the drive separately on my Mac and Windows systems with no problems, I can even use the firewire interface while the router is struggling to access the USB.
If I reboot the router it will come back for a little while, but then fails again pretty quickly.
I am pretty happy with the hardware, but I think the firmware needs a little work, and hope that some of the kinks are worked out of the firmware soon.
Does anyone have positive experience using the WRT350N to serve a network share?
Thanks,
D

I have had the EXACT same issue and experience with the WRT350N (v1.03.2), it locks up when I copy or read large files from the USB attached storage drive. I have used three different drive which all work fine when plugged directly into a USB 2.0 port.
Is there a firmware fix? This is pretty pathetic as it renders the USB storage useless for me. I guess I will return the WRT350N (v1.03.2) router.
.Chirs

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If I am missing something and there are others out there who are gettnig storage link to work with backup software, I would love to know what I am doing wrong, because 7 different linksys tecnical support people have been unable to tell me.
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(Mod note: Post has been edited for guidelines compliance.)Message Edited by primus on 03-04-2007 08:43 PM

sounds like you are in the same boat I was. I bought the WRT350N to use with my macbook pro and attached a 500gig usb drive to it for remote storage. I got nothing but permission problems copying files. The save usb drive worked fine in a dlink storage box. I took mine back and ordered the
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(Mod note: Edited for guideline compliance. Thank you.)Message Edited by Vince_02 on 04-28-2007 07:25 AM

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Message Edited by JOHNDOE_06 on 11-26-2007 07:16 AM

Hunny I don't think they have email support anymore and this is a user to user community forum FYI. It will get everything to that format if you choose to, I think you also pressed the claim function on router management for this to happen.
"Claim. For a blank disk, click the Claim button to create a partition that will be formatted as FAT32".
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You can call support nowadays, check the main site for that
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