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

[Jim]

It's my mistake. There's one drive with two partitions on it.  It and 
the other 3 drives are each plugged into one of the  4 sata ports on the 
motherboard.

Thanks for your replies.

On 4/3/24 16:00, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Not sure. What port is it plugged into?
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, 6:53 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>     The bios has nothing to specify whether a drive is internal or
>     external.  Is there some way for me to tell the system that it's
>     an internal drive?
>
>     On 4/3/24 12:50, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>     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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