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I have attached an usb disk to my Raspberry Pi, mounted it under /mnt/disk1 and shared through Samba with the name "Disk1".
The Pi is connected to my home network through an ethernet cable to my modem/router, a Netgear DGN3500.
From my MacBook, connected to the same network through wifi, I see the shared disk and I can navigate files and folders inside. But as soon as I try to copy some files to the Pi, after a few minutes the Pi hangs: the transfer is interrupted, the ssh prompt I keep open closes and I cannot ping it no more: host is down. This happens while copying through the samba share, but also using scp: after a moment, the Pi freezes, and I have to reboot it removing the power cable.
But if I connect the Pi through an ethernet directly to my MacBook, this does not happen: I am able to copy large amount of files from the Mac to the Pi, using samba or ssh, without any issue.

The Raspberry hangs only when copying from the MacBook to the shared disk. Transferring files from the shared disk to the MacBook works without any issue.

Could this problem be related in some way to my router? Anyone has experienced a behavior like this?

Davide Gualano
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  • I've experienced some weird problems too with my home network and the raspberry. mine didn't always manage to do a reboot, it just stuck with static blinking leds. I managed to point it down to my network being charged from somewhere. After plugging everything (EVERY device in your network) out, it went away. Now I don't know your network, but you can try! – Gotschi Dec 20 '13 at 02:08
  • The Rasperry is the only devise attached to the router with a cable, everything else, laptops, phones and the tablet is connected using wifi. – Davide Gualano Dec 20 '13 at 09:16
  • have you tried switching the pi's power supply? It should at least have 800mah-1A – Gotschi Dec 20 '13 at 09:27
  • The power supply I have is 1.5A, I think it should be ok. – Davide Gualano Dec 20 '13 at 09:31
  • you said, "But if I connect the Pi through an Ethernet directly to my Mac Book, this does not happen". By that you meant a complete wired network? – feverDream Dec 20 '13 at 19:13
  • A direct link with a an ethernet cable between my laptop and the Pi, without anything else in between. – Davide Gualano Dec 23 '13 at 09:32
  • I'm sorry but I have not resolved it yet. I'm still getting the connection hangs :| – Davide Gualano Mar 10 '14 at 09:59
  • did you find a solution? – Reigel Gallarde Sep 13 '16 at 22:30
  • No. After a while I have bought a small wifi adapter for the Pi and then everything started working correctly. – Davide Gualano Sep 14 '16 at 08:09

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