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Join Date: May 2004
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Hey, y’all. I’ve been having an issue where none of my external drives mount when I plug them in. The Mount button in Disk Utility doesn’t do the trick, either. Importantly (I think), the drives do use FileVault. A couple things I’ve figured out:
It’s very annoying to have to go into a terminal and do this every time. Since it works after rebooting, there’s probably a process that needs to be restarted, but I have no idea what. 2015 13” MBP, 10.12.6 Sierra (yeah, yeah, I know. reasons. hoping to update the OS soon.) Thanks! |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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Have you tried restarting Finder? I have to every now and then for some of my NAS connections.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Might be something in Launch Agents or Launch Daemons. Have a look in there (in both the user library and system library folders) and nuke anything suspicious and/or old.
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I hadn’t tried restarting Finder, but just did, and it didn’t work. I have checked LaunchAgents / LaunchDaemons and nothing seemed amiss. Strange…. Thanks for the suggestions!
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And this is happening on all the drives, and all USB ports?
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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I was thinking you just need to buy a new computer, external drive and data connection.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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Just curious, are these drives self powered or is there an external power adapter for them? Are the drives powering down when removed from the system?
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I've only seen something similar when drives have begun to fail. When you have them mounted, what does the SMART status say in disk utils?
What is the manufacturer of the drive(s)? |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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I experience this with 4 different WD drives bought at different times. Some are USB bus powered, some have external power. None support SMART (I haven’t seen any external drives that do afaik).
Like I said in the original post, they mount and work fine after I do it manually from a terminal, and it resolves after a reboot (for a while, anyway). My guess is that there’s some process that’s supposed to unlock FileVault-encrypted volumes when they’re plugged in, but it stops doing that on my machine for some reason. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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You know your drives better than we do, so that sounds plausible.
I had a G-Technology drive that could do USB or Firewire, but it would only mount via Firewire if I first mounted it via USB - super crazy weird (and scary). ... |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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Try removing the encryption from one of them and see if its symptoms continue. I'm curious and assuming that it is an issue with the encryption but it would be nice to know for sure.
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* everything is backed up (that’s why there are so many drives), but still want to save myself a PITA |
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
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Well, you could alway move content to a different drive and repartition. Do it with the smallest drive you have to minimize how much you have to transfer. Use rsync instead of Finder.
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