On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:16:05 -0500, Dale wrote:

> I have several external hard drives. I have one that is, weird.  Others
> work fine.  When I first power up the drive, cryptsetup can't open it
> because it doesn't exist yet.

Is it the drive/enclosure taking too long to power up? There are kernel
options to delay the boot to allow for USB devices to become available,
such as usb-storage.delay_use. Try setting a long delay and, if that
fixes it, reducing the delay until you find a suitable setting.


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Neil Bothwick

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