Re: Long wait for start job

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2021-06-20 at 17:40 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 6/20/21 3:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > If I power on the dock on after startup is complete, one drive
> > appears
> > immediately and the other takes 30 seconds or so, so the delay is
> > not
> > being caused by the boot process itself. It must be the hardware
> > (the
> > drive or the dock) taking that long for whatever reason, possibly
> > power
> > management as George suggested.
>
> Is it always the same drive taking so long?  If so, that's the
> culprit.

Yes, that's been established (strictly, I haven't bothered swapping the
drives in the dock to see what happens, but it's immaterial). Again,
the issue is not that one drive takes time to spin up, but that the
system start-up waits for it when it doesn't need to.

poc