[PLUG] External HD issue.

[TomasK]

CentOS 6 is 2011, kernel 2.6 - there used to be a lot of headaches with
USB hotplug - especially with USB3

I would recommend to upgrade to more recent CentOS (8 is current, 2019,
 kernel 4.18)

If you cannot upgrade - check dmsg and try to disable usb3 or force to
use usb2 with hotplug. I have no idea how to do this anymore.

Hope that helps,
Tomas

On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 08:16 -0700, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
> Try 'lsusb' and see if the device is being enumerated.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:12 AM wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, do you have another computer to test it on? That would be a
> > good way
> > to narrow down which side the problem is on.
> > 
> > -wes
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:09 AM Jake Bottero <jake at botteronet.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually, that’s a good idea, try mounting it from the command
> > > line. I
> > 
> > was
> > > using the GUI.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:07 AM Jake Bottero <jake at botteronet.ne
> > > t>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It was automatically mounted, and I did in fact move files to
> > > > it. I’ve
> > > > looked at several of the disk utilities and it doesn’t show up
> > > > as
> > 
> > present
> > > > but unmourned or anything else.
> > > > 
> > > > Bad cord? The drive is brand new.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:50 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.
> > > > com>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:16:04 -0700
> > > > > Jake Bottero <jake at botteronet.net> dijo:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > CentOS6.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have a Western Digital external hard drive, SSD, when I
> > > > > > first
> > > > > > plugged it in via USB, the system saw it. Now it doesn’t.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When you say 'saw it,' did you mean it just appeared, or that
> > > > > it
> > > > > appeared _and you were able to add/delete/move files on it_.
> > > > > The
> > 
> > latter
> > > > > means that it was automatically mounted.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When you plug it in, do you have to mount it before you can
> > > > > actually
> > > > > use it? If so, that is normal behavior. If it doesn't even
> > > > > appear,
> > 
> > then
> > > > > do 'mount' at the command line and see if it appears. If it
> > > > > still
> > > > > doesn't appear, then my best guess is that there is a
> > > > > hardware problem
> > > > > - bad connection, for example.
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> > > > 
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