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Ranon

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Registered: 2023-09-14

Posts: 44

Solved - Framework 16 cannot read External SSD

Hello all,

I have a Samsung 1TB Hard Drive and I am having a little trouble reading it.

It flashes blue for a second, then red, then no light.
A mac computer can read / format (ex FAT) it but when I plug it into my laptop (running arch + i3) nothing shows up with the lsblk command.

I have exfat utils installed and the same port is able to read a different Toshiba 32G thumbdrive.

I have tried different cables, ports. Will try a different PC tomorrow.

Any advice on other things I could try?

All the best
Rannon

Last edited by Ranon (2024-08-30 10:54:12)

Whoracle

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Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 66

Re: Solved - Framework 16 cannot read External SSD

Run

sudo dmesg -wT

before plugging it in, keep it open, see what that spits out during the plug-in.

Ranon

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Registered: 2023-09-14

Posts: 44

Re: Solved - Framework 16 cannot read External SSD

Hello,

Sorry for the delay. I actually reinstalled Arch on my system because I was doing some other testing (with ubuntu) to solve a battery issue.

Just plugged it back in and it works fine....

Here are the results anyways just incase you want to have a look

[Fri Aug 30 18:50:53 2024]  sda: sda1 sda2
[Fri Aug 30 18:50:53 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:23 2024] usb 1-2.2: USB disconnect, device number 19
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:23 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:24 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: new high-speed USB device number 20 using xhci_hcd
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=61f5, bcdDevice= 1.00
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: Product: Portable SSD T5
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: Manufacturer: Samsung
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] usb 1-2.2: SerialNumber: 1234567F0183
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] scsi host0: uas
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Samsung  Portable SSD T5  0    PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024]  sda: sda1 sda2
[Fri Aug 30 18:51:45 2024] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

I will be marking this as solved now.
Thanks again for the response