Hello. I have a new Pi 5. Attached to it are 2x unpowered USB3 hubs with 6 or 7 USB3 disks (NTFS) powered by 2x 4-wide-spaced-socket power boards. The Pi 5 OS is freshly is updated.
All of the USB3 disks are a tad oldish [read: a money challenged situation![:)]( "Smile")
], formatted in Win11 as GPT disks with NTFS and
security defined as 'everyone' having 'full control' at the disk level down, and all have been disk checked with success.
All of the USB3 disks and USB3 hubs work great when attached to a Win11 PC, usb3-fast copying via the hubs, no problems at all. Some have individually worked OK when plugged directly into an older Pi 4.
Then ...
With 2x USB3 hubs attached to the Pi 5, the 2 main-power boards on (thus the disks are powered on) when I boot the Pi 5 it tries its heart out to boot, however it proceeds extremely slowly and never completes the boot process, so I never see a desktop.
I assume the Pi 5 is trying to recognise the disks and it is just too much for it.
If I power off everything re-try powering on the Pi 5 only, with the unpowered USB3 hubs still attached, it does boot to the desktop OK and works well.
I will try booting to the desktop with everything turned off, then turn on each disk in sequence with perhaps a 2 minute gap to let the Pi 5 do its thing with that disk, to see if that helps at least recognise all of the disks and store the disk info wherever it stores it for next time.
In the future, I need to have all the disks powered on when rebooting the Pi 5, since it'll be a media nas of sorts.
Has anyone seen this Pi behaviour before ?
Any advice or suggestions ?
Thank you.
All of the USB3 disks are a tad oldish [read: a money challenged situation
], formatted in Win11 as GPT disks with NTFS andsecurity defined as 'everyone' having 'full control' at the disk level down, and all have been disk checked with success.
All of the USB3 disks and USB3 hubs work great when attached to a Win11 PC, usb3-fast copying via the hubs, no problems at all. Some have individually worked OK when plugged directly into an older Pi 4.
Then ...
With 2x USB3 hubs attached to the Pi 5, the 2 main-power boards on (thus the disks are powered on) when I boot the Pi 5 it tries its heart out to boot, however it proceeds extremely slowly and never completes the boot process, so I never see a desktop.
I assume the Pi 5 is trying to recognise the disks and it is just too much for it.
If I power off everything re-try powering on the Pi 5 only, with the unpowered USB3 hubs still attached, it does boot to the desktop OK and works well.
I will try booting to the desktop with everything turned off, then turn on each disk in sequence with perhaps a 2 minute gap to let the Pi 5 do its thing with that disk, to see if that helps at least recognise all of the disks and store the disk info wherever it stores it for next time.
In the future, I need to have all the disks powered on when rebooting the Pi 5, since it'll be a media nas of sorts.
Has anyone seen this Pi behaviour before ?
Any advice or suggestions ?
Thank you.
Statistics: Posted by hydra3333 — Mon Jul 29, 2024 6:56 am