Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 7:28 AM Dale <[email protected] > <mailto:[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. >
That is already done. They are never connected when I boot up anyway. I did the same on the NAS box as well. > 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 I meant the info in the messages file when powering up the drives were the same. The enclosures are a bit different but they are all eSATA. I did swap out the enclosure and the other did the same. I may put that drive in a Rosewill and see if it works as it should then, eliminate the drive as a problem. I have three Rosewill and two Startech. I've seen those limited to smaller sizes in the past. Generally tho, they always work regardless of size unless they really small like older IDE drives or something. I read once what causes that and don't buy those. Usually if I read it in the description, my bell goes off. I haven't seen one that is actually limited in ages. Good idea tho. Dale :-) :-)
