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

[Jim]

I shut  down the machine so I could open it up and see which sata port 
that drive was plugged into.  I was wrong earlier when I said it was 
plugged into one of the sata ports on the motherboard.  It was plugged 
into an addon card that's plugged into a pcie slot. I have a trayless 
hot swap mobile rack I use for drives I use for backups.  I switched the 
two sata  cables.  The internal drive now connects to the motherboard.  
The hot swap rack connects to the sata addon card.  I rebooted and the 
internal drives don't show.. Apparently anything connected to the sata 
ports on the motherboard is treated as an internal drive and anything 
conneccted to an addon cars is treated as an external drive whether it 
is or not.

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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