internal drive shows up as removable. Removable usb stick doesn't show at all

[Stephen Partington]

Check bios, some have a removable hardware flag that you can set to allow
them to be hot swap. Sata, SAS and U.2 NVME drives support this at a
hardware level natively so the bio may just need to have a setting updated.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:28 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Os = Kubuntu 22.04
>
> I have a problem with the two partitions on /dev/sdd showing up in Gnome
> Disk Utility and in Disks & Devices in the Kubuntu system tray as
> removable.  The real removable drive, a USB stick doesn't show at all.
> Somehow I got Gnome Disk Utility to show all disk, including the USB stick.
>
> In /sys/block/sdd there's a file named removable.  In it is just a
> number 1.  The other internal drives have a 0 in the removable file.
>
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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