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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 19:16:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de53645e-c898-602f-8567-ca6277cc4d21@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ed62ad2-c2b1-4f05-ad75-641f951e740d@youngman.org.uk>

Wol wrote:
> On 06/05/2025 21:51, Dale wrote:
>> So far, this is the first drive I've ever seen this 'slow to respond'
>> message with before.  Since I've never seen it before, curious as to
>> what it means exactly and is it normal?  Searching didn't help.  Some
>> claim kernel, others claim something else.
>
> Did you ADD that drive to all the others when it came up with that
> message? Is it possible that the drain of that extra drive caused a
> brown-out in the enclosure?
>
> I know I've had systems where the power had trips in to bring the
> drives up with random delays (mini-computers) because the system was
> quite capable of powering running drives, but couldn't provide the
> necessary boot-up surge to all the drives simultaneously.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
> .
>


The other drives are in the safe.  The only drives connected are the SSD
for the OS and this one drive.  Originally, I was going to use the
external enclosure connected to my main rig to just test the drive. 
When I saw the slow data connection speed, I removed it from the
enclosure and hooked it to the NAS box.  I wanted to be sure it was the
enclosure causing the slow data connection.  It appears that enclosure
is SATA 2 or something.  Anyway, it was when I connected to the NAS box
as a bare drive that I noticed the slow to respond message.  It may have
been there on my main rig as well but I just didn't notice it.  I
usually use tail -f to watch and hit the return key a few times to
separate what I want to watch from the normal logging.  It may have done
the same on my main rig and I missed it.  I sometimes forget to hit
return a few times. 

At this point, I don't know if I should return this drive or keep it as
is.  I don't know if this is a problem with this drive or normal for
some drives to be slow to respond at times.  I don't recall ever seeing
it before. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-07  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-05 21:15 [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem Dale
2025-05-06 12:12 ` Michael
2025-05-06 12:59   ` Dale
2025-05-06 14:31     ` Michael
2025-05-06 20:51       ` Dale
2025-05-06 23:08         ` Wol
2025-05-07  0:16           ` Dale [this message]
2025-05-06 23:30         ` Dale
2025-05-07  8:18           ` Michael
2025-05-07 15:13             ` Dale
2025-05-10 15:53               ` Dale
2025-05-10 18:52                 ` Michael
2025-05-12  8:11                   ` Dale
2025-05-12 11:14                     ` Michael
2025-05-13  6:30                       ` Dale
2025-05-12 22:34             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-05-13  6:05               ` Dale
2025-05-13  8:30               ` Michael

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