Hi to all,
as I attempted to solve a pesky DHCP-related bug and a SSH login being refused, I had to restart a WD MyCloud Home, running OMV6.
There's also an external HDD attached to the USB3.0 port that I intend to use for another test. This drive is formatted as ext4 (AFAIR) and is self-powered, so there isn't any power draw concern, nor any formatting issue (it wouldn't be important on boot anyway)
First trying to reboot, the drive span up, then down after a few seconds, giving off a loud click (the kind when heads park, not the same as a dead drive)
I then disconnected the external HDD, and the MCH finally booted properly.
So this is my first question: why would an external HDD prevent the MCH from spinning up?
After a successful boot, I then attached the external drive, went to the Storage > Drive menu, manually searched for the HDD and there it appeared as sdb.
Going down the menu to File system, I then clicked on "mount", but it keeps on loading something… Not sure what, but my drive just doesn't appear.
And here's the second question: why my external drive isn't readily shown despite being formatted in a supported filesystem?
And last but not least: still going down the menu in Storage > SMART > Devices, the right pane takes ages to be filled. In fact, it never completes.
A hint: below the "alarm bell" menu, there are many tasks running in the background, but OMV doesn't show any detail when an alert it clicked. I can only stop it.
Here's the "syslog" file as I type this post: https://bin.idrix.fr/?bdd9e0de…1rnLzpURBhFCShAmvruMyPbPA