External Hard Drive only recognized when rebooted

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Shadowolph
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External Hard Drive only recognized when rebooted

Post by Shadowolph »

Hello, I am having an issue where my hard drive is not being picked up in the latest linux mint cinnamon edition. I am on a thinkpad x1 carbon 6th gen. The funny thing is is that it gets detected when I restart the computer with the hard drive plugged in the usb of either of the 2 normal usb ports. I have also found that when I plug in a usb-c hub and plug my external hard drive into that, that it then pops up in the file browser. Strange, just wanted to ask what can I do to just get it to show up upon plugging it in? thanks
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mikeflan
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Re: External Hard Drive only recognized when rebooted

Post by mikeflan »

Hi and welcome to the forum. What happens when you plug a usb thumb drive into a normal USB port?

Please give the output of this in a terminal:

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lsusb -tv
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