[ale] USB "duplicate" drive issue on CentOS

[Edward Holcroft]

And that's exactly what I've been using!

Anybody have a recommendation for a known good USB3 card?

ed

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would be very suspicious of StarTech USB3 cards. I put in several and
> under any real use they actually crash the box hard. I have the 4 port,
> dedicated 4 channel version.
>
> On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 10:38 -0400, Edward Holcroft wrote:
>
> For now, I've added:
>
> cryptsetup luksClose DRIVE_NAME
> crypsetup luksOpen  --key-File /dev/disk/by-uid/xxxxxxxxxxxx DRIVE_NAME
>
> to my daily script.
>
> Doing it manually like this, cryptsetup doesn't seem to care that there's
> a duplicate device id and it opens the disk regardless, allowing it to
> mount when accessed and the backup script runs successfully (still using
> autofs) .
>
> Thanks for the ideas. I still need to do something more elegant for a
> permanent solution, probably involving udev.
>
> Still, most odd that it works fine on several identical boxes, but not on
> others. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe the USB3 cards in some servers are
> flakey. Testing that hypotheses is tricky as these are remote sites with
> extremely non tech-savvy people on site.
>
> ed
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
>
> Right, I wrote that in the last of my examples.  A rule that checks the
> ID and runs the mount script.
>
> On 2016-06-17 06:17, Phil Turmel wrote:
> > For the OP, bus and port and usb serial don't really matter.  He's
> > getting reliable /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks -- doesn't need more.  But an
> > udev rule can run a script on any newly inserted disk to check if it's a
> > backup disk, and which one, and conditionally spawn the backup process.
> >
> > On 06/16/2016 11:52 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >>     *From: *"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> >
> >>     However, these devices I'm using do not have unique serial numbers
> which
> >>     is why I'm working with them via their bus number.
> >
> >> I do the same.  USB port = tty name
> >
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