Re: External hard drive failing? (Jeffrey Taylor)
Jeffrey Taylor <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jun 2022 08:50:55 -0500
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============7029794413992475320== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------0qkXOIuhMhfKvCYZ07WqJHP9" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0qkXOIuhMhfKvCYZ07WqJHP9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 6/12/22 05:05, Axel Braun wrote: > > Hello Jeffrey, > > > Am Sonntag, 12. Juni 2022, 12:00:01 CEST schrieb > [email protected]: > > > > I have a Verbatim external USB 3.0 hard drive. For the second time in a > > > month, my laptop running Leap 15.3, fails to recognize when it's plugged > > > in. The light on the drive lights up when it's plugged in, sothe drive > > > recognizes the laptop. The laptop is a Lenovo T520. The ports are USB > > > 2.0. Rebooting the laptop does not help. Shutting the laptop for an > > > hour does help. Any of this sound familiar? Is USB port failing? > > > Probably not, same thing happens regardless of which port the hard drive > > > is plugged into. Hard drive failing or something in the kernel > messing up? > > > Are you using KDE? A while ago there was a bug that a USB device > plugged in for the second time is not recognized anymore. > > I'm not sure this was Leap or TW, but is fixed already (I'm using TW > on T520 and X1Extreme) > > > In any case you should take a look at the journal (journalctl -f) > while plugging the USB drive in > > > HTH > > Axel > > Axel, This is on XFCE. 'journal -f' shows nothing. This does not consistently on the second time. Thank you, Jeffrey --------------0qkXOIuhMhfKvCYZ07WqJHP9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/12/22 05:05, Axel Braun wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:5841951.lOV4Wx5bFT@x1e"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Hello Jeffrey,</p> <br> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Am Sonntag, 12. Juni 2022, 12:00:01 CEST schrieb <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>:</p> <br> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I have a Verbatim external USB 3.0 hard drive. For the second time in a</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> month, my laptop running Leap 15.3, fails to recognize when it's plugged</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> in. The light on the drive lights up when it's plugged in, sothe drive</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> recognizes the laptop. The laptop is a Lenovo T520. The ports are USB</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> 2.0. Rebooting the laptop does not help. Shutting the laptop for an</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> hour does help. Any of this sound familiar? Is USB port failing? </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Probably not, same thing happens regardless of which port the hard drive</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> is plugged into. Hard drive failing or something in the kernel messing up?</p> <br> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Are you using KDE? A while ago there was a bug that a USB device plugged in for the second time is not recognized anymore. </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I'm not sure this was Leap or TW, but is fixed already (I'm using TW on T520 and X1Extreme)</p> <br> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">In any case you should take a look at the journal (journalctl -f) while plugging the USB drive in</p> <br> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">HTH</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Axel</p> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> </blockquote> <p>Axel,<br> This is on XFCE. 'journal -f' shows nothing. This does not consistently on the second time.</p> <p>Thank you,<br> Jeffrey</p> <p><br> </p> </body> </html> --------------0qkXOIuhMhfKvCYZ07WqJHP9-- --===============7029794413992475320== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline LS0gClRoZSBsaW51eC10aGlua3BhZCBtYWlsaW5nIGxpc3QgaG9tZSBwYWdlIGlzIGF0OgpodHRw Oi8vbWFpbG1hbi5saW51eC10aGlua3BhZC5vcmcvbWFpbG1hbi9saXN0aW5mby9saW51eC10aGlu a3BhZA== --===============7029794413992475320==--