External USB-HDD not detected

Hello folks,

since updating to the latest x64 build of DietPi my system doesn’t recognize the external 5TB usb hard drive connected over USB 3.0 anymore. Used to work fine with the same combination of hardware though. When I bring up the DietPi drive manager, only the internal drives are listed.

Already tried different USB ports but with no luck. When I connect the USB drive to a different machine, the drive is properly detected as well.

Any advice on how to get the HDD detected again?

Hmm,

looks some issues on the HDD to get detected correctly. DietPi is just trying to get the information from underlying Debian image.

can you connect your HDD again and run following 2 command

lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
blkid

This needs to show your HDD. If not, no chance for DietPi to get your HDD connected.

Btw: is your enclosure externally powered? It might be the HDD require some more power to be able to work correctly?

As well it could be some driver packages got update in front of dietpi-update. Probably you have a backup that can be retorted to be able to check which apt package might have an influence.

And you could have a look to kernel error message. Maybe it will give some hint.

dmesg -l err,crit,alert,emerg

I am having the same issue. I did both of those commands and the drive is showing up. When I go into dietpi-launcher and the disk admin the second drive does not show up.

dietpi@DietPi:~$ lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
NAME        FSTYPE LABEL   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT    PARTUUID                             UUID
sda                        3.6T  0 disk
└─sda1      ext4           3.6T  0 part /mnt/PlexArea d2bb9137-baa4-e941-9375-c4c8f68396f8 cc84017a-f448-40c6-a851-fb6877fb8ad8
sdb                        1.8T  0 disk
├─sdb1                       2G  0 part               76613b6e-86d7-11ec-88a1-001a64701c32
└─sdb2                     1.8T  0 part               76976766-86d7-11ec-88a1-001a64701c32
mmcblk2                  238.3G  0 disk
└─mmcblk2p1 ext4         238.3G  0 part /             725c2e4f-01                          7fdb5035-1637-4a78-b6f1-5775a14ceebf
dietpi@DietPi:~$ blkid
-bash: blkid: command not found
dietpi@DietPi:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="cc84017a-f448-40c6-a851-fb6877fb8ad8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="d2bb9137-baa4-e941-9375-c4c8f68396f8"
/dev/mmcblk2p1: UUID="7fdb5035-1637-4a78-b6f1-5775a14ceebf" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="725c2e4f-01"
/dev/sdb2: PTUUID="6b5eb3fc-a8b0-3041-8321-380d73e769f6" PTTYPE="gpt" PARTUUID="76976766-86d7-11ec-88a1-001a64701c32"
/dev/sdb1: PTUUID="e9936eec" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="76613b6e-86d7-11ec-88a1-001a64701c32"

It is sdb2 I am trying to access.

Greg

Pls open a new own topic as this one is 4 years old.