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Mike-thinky

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Registered: 2021-10-28

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External USB hardrive problems with excaliber ?

Hi,

I have two very different dell laptops, one with daedalus, the other with excaliber.
I also have two external hardrives for backups and restoring files after installs etc. One is self powered from the usb, the other has an external powerbrick. Both are read by the daedalus laptop, neither can be seen in excaliber.

On the excaliber laptop lsblk shows no changes when plugging the drives in, one is 3Tb, the other is 6Tb, so I do not expect immediate recognition, but even after several minutes the excaliber machine is not seeing these drives anywhere.

Oh yes, it is the mate desktop. I also turn off recommended quite early after install, or one can get stuck in a loop with unwanted extras that wont be removed without a major re-installation fiasco.

Any ideas what I could try next?

Last edited by Mike-thinky (2024-10-22 12:36:58)

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

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Re: External USB hardrive problems with excaliber ?

dmesg?

sudo dmesg | grep usb

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Mike-thinky

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Re: External USB hardrive problems with excaliber ?

No extra messages when I add one of them

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: External USB hardrive problems with excaliber ?

what happens when you plug a thumbdrive into the same physical port you just tried with the external hard-drives? what does dmesg and/or lsusb tell you then?

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