I bought a USB adapter with external power supply to use some of the leftover drives as external backups. They are SATA drives.
When I plug the USB in nothing is recognized. I can power the drive on and let it spin up first but no difference.
It doesn't show up in the file manager, lsusb, gparted, lsblk, or any other that I've tried so far.
I'm guessing the DROBO erased some kind of file system table of contents or master boot record or something.
I get the same result when I plug it in to the motherboard.
Can anyone help me set these drives up to be used like a normal USB drive?
The drive I'm looking for is a TOSHIBA 1T. The label also says HITACHI on it.
There is a SATA listing on Bus 007 Device 002...
I suppose the first step is to isolate everything USB aside from mouse and keyboard and retest.
I'll post the results.
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mikel@KingArthur:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 838.4G 0 part /run/timeshift/backup
└─sda2 8:2 0 88.5G 0 part /media/mikel/extra storage ta
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 477G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 476.4G 0 part /
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mikel@KingArthur:~$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 13fd:0840 Initio Corporation INIC-1618L SATA
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0b05:18f3 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. AURA LED Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04e8:6031 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd USB device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 275d:0ba6 USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a2c:2124 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd USB Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub