Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:16:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I have several external hard drives. I have one that is, weird. Others >> work fine. When I first power up the drive, cryptsetup can't open it >> because it doesn't exist yet. > Is it the drive/enclosure taking too long to power up? There are kernel > options to delay the boot to allow for USB devices to become available, > such as usb-storage.delay_use. Try setting a long delay and, if that > fixes it, reducing the delay until you find a suitable setting. > >
I connect by eSATA. I hate using USB for a hard drive. This is when I have my system already booted so I'm hot plugging. Also, I use cryptsetup manually. I should have mentioned that in the original post. I did plug up one of my other external drives and watch /var/log/messages. Both have the same things listed when I power up the external drives. I couldn't tell anything different. Also, they all power up in the same time frame. Usually, 10 seconds or so from power on to nothing more in messages. The enclosure that doesn't work right is a StarTech SAT3510BU2E. The ones that work fine, they are Rosewill RX304APU335B. Both of those models have fans. They have both eSATA and USB but I've never used the USB ports. All the external drives appear the same in every way except that one enclosure requires me to restart LVM to get that last bit cryptsetup needs. I can't make any sense of it. I have two of the StarTech ones. I may try the other one. See if it does the same thing. What's odd, it seems to work fine on the 770T system with a fresh install and new kernel. I don't see anything different between the two types of enclosures except I have to restart LVM with one of them. Weird for sure. Any ideas? Dale :-) :-)
