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Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)?
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Ant
Feb 11, 2021, 4:42:35 AM2/11/21
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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
(http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07VS8QCXC/)
with three partitions (exFAT, encrypted macOS+Journaled, and encrypted
APFS -- http://imgur.com/a/DUFXWmK from macOS Mojave v10.4.6's Disk
Utilty v18 app when partitions are not mounted, partitioned, and
formatted).
Thank you for reading. :)
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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
(http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07VS8QCXC/)
with three partitions (exFAT, encrypted macOS+Journaled, and encrypted
APFS -- http://imgur.com/a/DUFXWmK from macOS Mojave v10.4.6's Disk
Utilty v18 app when partitions are not mounted, partitioned, and
formatted).
Thank you for reading. :)
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Alan Browne
Feb 16, 2021, 3:13:53 PM2/16/21
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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
> 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
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.
Your Name
Feb 16, 2021, 5:09:46 PM2/16/21
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which is doesn't do on waking. For large cpacity drives this can take a
bit longer than smaller capacity drives.
Ant
Feb 16, 2021, 5:26:37 PM2/16/21
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Percival John Hackworth
Feb 16, 2021, 6:06:08 PM2/16/21
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On 16-Feb-2021 at 2:26:32PM PST, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne <Blac...@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. :/
Part of me wonders if "disks take a long time to mount" is a possible symptom
> In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne <Blac...@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. :/
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
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Feb 16, 2021, 6:07:05 PM2/16/21
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In message <2IVWH.3$Iz...@fx35.iad> Alan Browne <Blac...@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
> 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.
partitions on those drives like it's 1999.
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Ant
Feb 16, 2021, 9:09:32 PM2/16/21
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In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Percival John Hackworth <p...@nanoworks.com> wrote:
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10/22/2018?), it only found the internal SSD in this 2012 MBP (Mojave
v10.14.6). :( I'm using
https://binaryfruit.com/download/mac/satsmartdriver/SATSMARTDriver-0.10.2.zip
to install the external driver for USB drive access (it took forever to
install too). :(
I also tried GSmartControl v1.1.3 (last updated in 11/12/2017!) in my
decade old, updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC. It also said no SMART for this
1.5 months old external HDD too.
...
> 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
According to SMARTReporter v3.1.17 b2295 (no newer version since
> 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
10/22/2018?), it only found the internal SSD in this 2012 MBP (Mojave
v10.14.6). :( I'm using
https://binaryfruit.com/download/mac/satsmartdriver/SATSMARTDriver-0.10.2.zip
to install the external driver for USB drive access (it took forever to
install too). :(
I also tried GSmartControl v1.1.3 (last updated in 11/12/2017!) in my
decade old, updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC. It also said no SMART for this
1.5 months old external HDD too.
Alan Browne
Feb 17, 2021, 8:42:24 PM2/17/21
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