Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
old external Seagate HDD
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no entering of the password on each connect required.
(Catalina 10.15 ish.)
[1] IIRC even if the volume doesn't show in Finder quickly, I believe
they show in Disk Utility quicker than that - but I won't stand on it.
In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month >> > old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no
entering of the password on each connect required.
(Catalina 10.15 ish.)
[1] IIRC even if the volume doesn't show in Finder quickly, I believe
they show in Disk Utility quicker than that - but I won't stand on it.
Disk Utility app also takes a long time to show them. :/
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no entering of the password on each connect required.
(Catalina 10.15 ish.)
[1] IIRC even if the volume doesn't show in Finder quickly, I believe
they show in Disk Utility quicker than that - but I won't stand on it.
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no entering of the password on each connect required.
Part of me wonders if "disks take a long time to mount" is a possible symptom of a failing drive. Do these drives have SMART capabilities? If you have a SMART monitor or reporter, you can look at the drive error statistics and see how many bad block replacements have been made (not indicative of an error, typically) and how many uncorrectable bad block errors (which are a problem).
I've used SmartMonTools on other systems to do monitoring and it works well.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/latest/download
In message <2IVWH.3$IzB.0@fx35.iad> Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur
v11.x and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's
encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no
encryption) always mount right away, but the other ones take like a
minute or more to be seen and ask me to enter their passwords to
mount. This is with a month old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake
from sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect
it can take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are
all encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there
is no entering of the password on each connect required.
I am going to guess that you have not, however, created multiple
partitions on those drives like it's 1999.
In message <2IVWH.3$IzB.0@fx35.iad> Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no
entering of the password on each connect required.
I am going to guess that you have not, however, created multiple
partitions on those drives like it's 1999.
On 2021-02-16 18:07, Lewis wrote:
In message <2IVWH.3$IzB.0@fx35.iad> Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
Hello.
Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month >>>> old external Seagate HDD
I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time. On a "wake from
sleep" they're available in seconds. On a re-boot or re-connect it can
take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all
encrypted drives. The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no
entering of the password on each connect required.
I am going to guess that you have not, however, created multiple
partitions on those drives like it's 1999.
I'm pretty sure I abandoned multiple partitions before 1999.
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