I just finished installing Rock on a NUC11PAHi7 (with the recommended Samsung 970 EVO Plus, and 16GB Crucial RAM). I also got a 4TB SSD mounted in an external case to connect via Thunderbolt. After Rock formatted the external drive, it will not mount on my Mac. Instead I get the message “The disk yo…

[image] Mr_B: via Thunderbolt) I"m not sure ROCK has drivers to recognize thunderbolt

The linux format used by rock is not readable by MacOS. If you have an internal drive you must copy to it over the network.

I had initially formatted the drive exFAT as I was under the impression that would be supported by ROCK as well, but it wasn’t recognized when I mounted it. Is there a trick to getting exFAT partitions to work with ROCK? I had just used Disk Utility.

Just to clarify, the only format that will work with ROCK for an Internal Drive is the ext4 format which Rock does when you push the Format Drive button. You would format an External only usb drive exFAT. Maybe I’m not understanding what you are trying to do, but, it sounding like you put a drive …

You can use the 3rd-party filesystem driver by Paragon to get extFS support on the Mac, it works very well. [image] Write/read access to Linux files under macOS High Sierra – extFS by Paragon... Boost your Mac with Paragon File System Link. Read/write Linux ext2/3/4 files on your Mac. …

You can plug an external exFAT formatted drive via USB into both Mac and rock. You can internally mount the bare SATA drive in a NUC and use the Rock web admin page to format it; you’d then mount it in macOS and copy your music to it over the network. Option 3, spend money on a utility you’ll prob…

Using Paragon is an interesting idea. I might go this route if I can’t get an exFAT partition readable by both the NUC and my Mac. Thanks, @Suedkiez !

I intended to use an external drive (mounted via Thunderbolt) to the NUC to store all my music files. I’m guessing the issue I’m having is the Thunderbolt port then. The NUC sees it as internal storage and not external? So one solution would be to get a USB external case instead and use that.

[image] mikeb: You can plug an external exFAT formatted drive via USB into both Mac and rock. That was my initial intent. I had formatted an external drive exFAT and connected it to the NUC via the Thunderbolt port but it was not recognized by ROCK. [image] mikeb: You can internally moun…

[image] Mr_B: I’ve been copying over the network for over 10 hours now and I’m still at the D’s. It’s excruciatingly slow. You could try a crossover cable between the two devices, they should link at 1 Gbit/s. The initial copy is the worst of course, your daily updates would possibly not be a…

So I did a test… I pulled out an old SSD in a USB-A enclosure and formatted it exFAT, then dropped a few folders of music on it and plugged it into my NUC. I was able to add the drive as a library and ROON was able to see all the files. I tried the same test with my new drive, formatting it again t…

Cannot mount Roon formatted music drive on Mac

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Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan) April 11, 2024, 7:18pm 13

I"m not sure ROCK has drivers to recognize thunderbolt

Can't access to files stored on external SSD (Thunderbolt)