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jsalk

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Registered: 2015-06-20

Posts: 26

Adding second drive issues

I am attempting to add a second hard drive to a system for data storage only.  You can see /dev/sdb1 below.

$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="545C-B608" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="b8eb84a0-9b3d-46c9-ab5b-e07b2c86235d"
/dev/sda2: UUID="87d0cb74-974e-4faa-8185-cd23bc815f6d" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="9559d5f6-fdbf-44da-8383-8f88d216b3ad"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="956d3ed3-cc2b-4092-ba41-7e22efeb1942" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="49d30cfa-fb2a-bd4c-9950-3b41b6733be3"

Here is my fstab file:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# /dev/sda2
UUID=87d0cb74-974e-4faa-8185-cd23bc815f6d       /               ext4           $

# /dev/sda1
UUID=545C-B608          /boot           vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,$

# /dev/sdb1 (/music)
#UUID=956d3ed3-ccb2-4092-ba41-7e22efeb1942     /music               ext4      $
PARTUUID=49d30cfa-fb2a-bd4c-9950-3b41b6733be3   /music  ext4    defaults,noatim$
#/dev/sdb1 /music ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1

As you can see, I tried with both UUID and PARTUUID.  Both work when I connect the drive via USB.  But when I connect the same drive via SATA, not only does mounting fail, but networking as well.  The system waits trying to mount the drive and this is the additional service tails:

systemd-networkd-wait-online.service       enabled

I tried disabling that service, but then I had no network connection.  So a re-enabled it.

Here is the fdisk information on the drive in question:

$ fdisk /dev/sdb

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.31.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.


Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 4.6 TiB, 5000981073920 bytes, 1220942645 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 268431360 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: FE792804-0AC1-A54A-968F-4C7C4A3F4F2F

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1  65535 1220942639 1220877105  4.6T Linux filesystem

Command (m for help):

Why does this work if the drive is connected via USB and not internally as a SATA drive?

- Jim

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,863

Re: Adding second drive issues

Secure the mount by adding "noauto,nofail" to the options and then boot with the SATA-attached disk and check dmesg & "lsblk -f" on whether the device exists at all.
If so attempt a manual mount and see the error messages. If not: #1 cause is a broken SATA cable.

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