Question Orico NVME enclosure - Realtek rtl9210b-cg how to mount multiple drives usb

[fshaf]

I've tried on Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows Pro 11 to mount two or more NVME USB enclosures (Orico https://www.orico.cc/us/product/detail/8037.html) with no success. Individually, they work fine.

On Ubuntu, I can see the drives (for two) but cannot mount. Any suggestions/solutions?

Thanks,
Frank

$ sudo smartctl -d scsi -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.19.0-46-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               Realtek
Product:              RTL9210B-CG
Revision:             1.00
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  16384 bytes
Lowest aligned LBA:   11040
LU is fully provisioned [LBPRZ=1]
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Logical Unit id:      0x3001237923792379
Serial number:        0000000000000000
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Sat Aug 19 23:55:59 2023 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging


$ sudo smartctl -d scsi -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.19.0-46-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               Realtek
Product:              RTL9210B-CG
Revision:             1.00
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Logical Unit id:      0x3001237923792379
Serial number:        0000000000000000
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Sun Aug 20 22:20:12 2023 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Check the applicable motherboard's User Guide/Manual. The drive configuration may not be supported.

Open Disk Management with either one of the drives up and running. Expand the Disk Management window so all can be seen. Take a screenshot and post the screenshot here via imgur (www.imgur.com)

Do the same with the other drive installed and then again with both drives installed.

My thought being that the motherboard is unable to support two such drives at the same time.

More information needed.

 

[fshaf]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Check the applicable motherboard's User Guide/Manual. The drive configuration may not be supported.

Open Disk Management with either one of the drives up and running. Expand the Disk Management window so all can be seen. Take a screenshot and post the screenshot here via imgur (www.imgur.com)

Do the same with the other drive installed and then again with both drives installed.

My thought being that the motherboard is unable to support two such drives at the same time.

More information needed.

Thank you for the suggestion.
As I was going thru collecting this info, I ran more tests (in ubuntu) and was able to mount four of these devices using a hub (either usb-c or usb-3) if I attached one disk at a time and waited to get ready and visible till I attached a new one.