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

[Stephen Partington]

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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