I recently got myself an external USB 3.0 SATA case for an old 2.5" SSHD of mine. I wish to use it as remote storage on my Raspberry Pi 4B, although I keep running into the same issue repeatedly. The drive itself is FAT32 formatted, I’ve checked its health on dietpi and Windows. Both Operating Systems report an OK status. However, the SSHD refuses to show up in /dev or a quick lsblk. If I plug it into Windows it shows up perfectly fine. I tried using a powered USB hub and it showed up, but not for long, either.
Sorry to double-post, but I just tried using dietpi-drive_manager. This time, however, I used a regular USB stick (3.0 / 32GB). Didn’t take long before Windows couldn’t access the device anymore.
Don’t get it, you have plugged the USB device into you DietPi? How does Windows fits into the picture? Do you use as well samba to populate and export the device to a windows based system?
Ok imported information. Let’s separate the topic. What is the status of you USB device on your DietPi system? Is the drive still accessible? Still visible using df command?
Right, I unmounted it before the reboot and then scanned for added or removed drives. Nothing came up. Now the Pi has rebooted and it sees the USB drive now.
I do have another micro SD card. I’ll try to raspbian lite. This is the second USB device I’ve tried with this, so it’s weird. I’ll report back on how raspbian lite is.
Ok using raspbian lite will verify if there is all fine one hardware. If raspbian lite is working, we can simply migrate to DietPi executing 1 script . Afterward we can check behaviour again. Hope we can get closer to it.
I had plugged in the micro HDMI and my keyboard and maybe after almost a minute, both of them stopped working.
I tried to change input back to HDMI and it refuses. Keyboard stopped working in the middle of trying to run lsblk to check for the USB.