No, they are doing exactly what they were put there to do. They were carefully vetted and groomed for their position

Your password just unlocks the volume key which is used to decrypt/encrypt the data. It sounds like the volume key is on our PC, not the external drive. I don’t have much experience with LUKs and none with using it on an external drive, but I suspect that you will need to wipe the drive and set it up again while ensuring that the volume key is stored on the external drive itself.

24+ hours to compile Mozilla suite on an 800mhz PowerPC g3 with 256mb memory. Good times