I think that the drive should be asleep before being plugged in. Unless, it is one of those 3.5" with its own power.
Perhaps we need to know little more about what kind of drive this is, beside how slow is a slow? Tomas On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 7:41 PM Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:06 PM Ken Stephens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have a USB drive housing with one drive in it. When I plug it into my > > Fedora 28 Workstation, the system sits for quite a while before it > > recognizes it. Is there something I can do to speed up the process? > > > > TIA, > > Ken > > ________ > > > It might be that the drive in the housing is going to sleep and the delay > is the drive waking up. Here is some information about keeping it awake. > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5211/prevent-a-usb-external-hard-drive-from-sleeping > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
