On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:28 AM Dale <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP>. > > 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?
First, Hi Dale... I'm hesitant to take you in the wrong direction. Just jotting down a couple of thoughts. 1) I know you don't like rebooting but if it was me I would mod my /etc/fstab to not mount these drives automatically. (noauto vs auto). I would then reboot and do some experimenting mounting by hand, or in a bash script, to see if they reliably mount and unmount after the machine is up. 2) You suggest these enclosures are identical, but in a quick search for specs the Rosewill appears to support drives up to 6TB but the StarTech only supports up to 4TB. What size drives are you using? https://media.startech.com/cms/pdfs/sat3510bu2e_datasheet.pdf https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rx304-apu3-35b/p/N82E16817182316 If those specs are the right ones the enclosures are not identical. Good luck, Mark
