[Solved - I Think] Weird Flash Drive Issue

[AidenJames1995]

I am trying to mount a 256GB Samsung Flash Drive on boot. I have the following entry in fstab:

Note: Yes. the UUID is obfuscated.

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UUID=XXXX-XXXX /media/aiden/SecondBackUp auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

However, when the computer boots and I get into Mint, it hasn't mounted. When I check the Disks utility, I see a drive called "SMI_USB_MEMORY_BAR", which I can't do anything with (has no UUID or ability to modify anything). However, when I pull out the USB and re-insert (within 2 seconds between the two actions), it immediately mounts itself; fully readable, no filesystem issues or anything.

Thoughts on what could be going on here, and how to get this to mount on boot? I am running an older AMD FX based system currently.

inxi -Frz (after a reseat of the USB Flash Drive):

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System:
  Host: LMint19 Kernel: 5.4.0-59-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A99FX PRO R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2501 date: 04/07/2014 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  Speed: 2074 MHz min/max: 1400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2107 2: 2082 
  3: 1502 4: 1492 5: 1404 6: 1404 7: 1535 8: 1646 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Vega driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: amdgpu 
  resolution: 1600x900_60.00~60Hz, 1600x900_60.00~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon v: 4.6.13572 Core Profile Context 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-3: Creative Labs CA0110 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-59-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: enp13s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.92 TiB used: 1.26 TiB (21.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD30EZRZ-00Z5HB0 
  size: 2.73 TiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD30EZRZ-00Z5HB0 
  size: 2.73 TiB 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Flash Drive FIT 
  size: 239.02 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 195.58 GiB used: 180.73 GiB (92.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
  ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 535.6 MiB (76.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sdb2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 31.90 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: 26.0 C 

[AidenJames1995]

Interestingly, this seems to be fixed now. Might have been a kernel update fix?