Hey,
I wanted to do backup and plug in external USB cady with 1TB 3.5inch drive, but my StartOS does not recognize it.
Through the terminal I formated the drive again to EXT4, mounted it , but still was not recognized.
Any help please
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Assuming this is externally powered (if not, there’s little way this old 3.5 spinning drive could be powered by USB) then I’m not entirely surprised. Often these adapters (rather than the slow spinning drives themselves) aren’t recognized. Assuming you have to use this drive for some reason, you could try other caddies.
Yes, it is powered with its own adapter.
OK. Not much you can do though, other than try another adapter. Not sure how exactly they work, but I’ve rarely seen one that is detected.
The adapter is fine, I can see and mount the drive through terminal
Apologies, I didn’t see your screenshots.
It should mount automatically, you shouldn’t need to mount it yourself, doing so might interfere with StartOS’s own attempts to mount and unmount and consider it a backup target. But I assume you only did this because the drive wasn’t recognized in the first place.
Next thing to have a look at are the kernel logs when you attach this drive for the first time. It might well say what the issue is. If it doesn’t, I don’t think I have a next step for you.
This is the kernel log. Which says it does detect the sub drive. But no physical drive shows anyway. Only my network folder is there.
I’m just spit-balling here but…
I have found some computing devices will only recognize an external drive using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition type vs the GUID partition type. That’s because GUID puts two partitions on the drive. Partition #1 is the “MBR replacement” volume, and Partition #2 is the user volume (the one you’re supposed to see).
I’ve encountered situations where only partition #1 is detected (which is not the user volume) and then the drive either won’t mount, or it appears empty.
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Sorry, I am new to this. Not sure if I got it correctly. But you say I should format the drive in windows as MBR instead of the format I done through SSH terminal? Thanks
Try the command: sudo parted -l
Look for a line that says Partition Type for your drive.
If it says msdos, then it’s already MBR and this is not the problem.
if it says gpt, then it might be worth reformatting the drive as a MBR volume.
Oddly enough, using Disk Utility in MacOS is the easiest way to change a partition type.
Update:
All good, I did not format the new sda1 partition. Now all works. Thanks ID3757