New install and having a few problems

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My setup is

Raspberry Pi 3 B+/Allo Kali/Allo Piano 2.1/1TB USB hard drive. 2000 Albums. 19,000 tracks.
Volumio is 2.389 (I tried the dev version as well, no difference, I think it is me and not Volumio)

The USB hard drive is the biggest problem for me, I get the little chime startup and everything is great except no hard drive is visible in My Music, or the USB list. (I also don’t see “Internal” or “NAS”).

Physically unplugging and replugging in sometimes gets it back but I SSH in and issue a “lazy unmount” then immediately followed by a mount.

disk wise it seems healthy: sudo fdisk -l reveals it as /dev/sda1 and 931GB (which is about right) and formatted as HTPS/NTFS/exFAT

sudo umount -l /dev/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB/Music/

…and that works but it does not persist. Listening to music is fine then the next day I cannot log in via the web or via SSH and I have to repeat the cycle and if I leave volumio alone for any short period of time I lose the hard drive, if I restart the player (such as switching between EQ plugin and no EQ) I lose the hard drive. It remains mounted but I have to umount it then mount it as above and then rescan. Its getting pretty tiresome

Any thoughts? I have tested the hard drive on a PC for errors between these lazy unmounts and hot plugging a USB drive is never a great idea but no errors have been found.

When it works it sounds fantastic, but I would like a library to persist and have the library available like you guys.

Thanks
x
Claire

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Hi Claire, have you got a decent power supply there, rather than a mobile phone charger? Are you powering the USB disk separately?

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Yes I have a very good psu powering the RPi and the Kali, a linear 5V 3A psu based around twisted pear audio’s LCDPS. This problem is present irrespective of power supply as I have tried a 5V 3A switch mode PSU and a Phone PSU and my linear PSU (part of a much bigger build) and the drives continually to not be visible, I need to umount then mount then scan the music library, it’s really a chore.

I never used to have to power the USB drive separately, but I will give that a go, it’s possible the higher power draw of the Pi 3B+ has tipped it over the edge stability wise, but the is no shortage of good quality power going to the Pi/Kali.

Powering Pi and Kali independently yields no change

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I think I would try the separate power supply first. You might then try looking at the logs to see if it gives you any clues. Ssh in and run ‘sudo journalctl -f’ to get a real time display of the log. Then wait for the hard drive to disappear (or cause it).