Am 2020-06-13 14:19, schrieb Tito via Dng:
> maybe rather than trying to mount the disk earlier, you could try
> to spin it up so that it mounts when mountall is run.

AFTER boot a "mount -a" waits until the disk is ready and mounts it
without any failure. I don't see why this should not be the same during
boot. I suspect it has more to do with disc size, see the warnings in
dmesg.