Wes, Bill, and Tomas, I thank you for the replies. After a few minutes I climbed under my desk to the disk and discovered it was powered down or asleep. I cycled the power and it came up reasonably fast. But sometimes it takes a minute or two. It must be that the disk is "asleep" and is spinning up to get mounted. I have my Window$ 7 in a virtualbox there. I need it only for my taxes. Windwo$ just churns the disk.
I am still wondering if there is a rescan utility for USB on Linux? Ken On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:01 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
