Re: Please help! Firmware issues TP Link 3020

Hi,
ok, thank you for the detailed feedback.

This clearly looks like an issue with power & USB sticks:

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[ 58.020000] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 58.300000] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 68.570000] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 68.720000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery

So, the USB stick goes offline after reading errors with the hardware device. I recommend using the shipped power unit.
That might solve some of the issues. There is still a few percent left, that there is a problem with newer revisions of the MR3020 board. At least the MR3040 is pretty similar and that worked out.

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I did identify a formatting issue on one of the USB drives (default 4MB partition), so removed that.

Be careful. The 4MB partition might be from the other partition type GPT: [en.wikipedia.org]
I noticed on other USB sticks, that in GPT mode, the first partition is hidden on normal computers, but on the "old" MR3020 you can see it with that limit amount of space. Archlinux-wiki usually provides pretty good HowTos, have a look at the linked page.

Thank you for your offer! Any help is appreciated.

best regards
Matthias