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Continuously monitor usb connection status

You could do that with pyudev and a python script that monitors USB connections, logs the events to a file, and prints the events to the console. start by installing the packagepip install pyudev then ...
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External Hard Disk not recognised on USB 3 port

I recently hooked up 4 drives using USB 3.0. The drives were as follows: WD 2.5 Laptop SATA (160GB) SSD Drive (60GB) Hitachi 3.5 SATA (320GB) Seagate 3.5 SATA (2TB) I used Sabient adapters, 2 non-...
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PC running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop not mounting a SATA DVD/RW drive connected via USB

The solution to the problem of not being able to use an external DVD/RW drive with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as an external drive was to use a better quality USB 3.0 to SATA III 6 Gbps Optical Storage Adapter. ...
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Can't copy file to usb

Well for me in 2023 the solution that I found is: Open "Disk management utility for GNOME". Select USB and apply "Repair Filesystem" (you can run after "Check File system&...
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Check real size of USB thumb drive

[Problem] You bought an SD card, but you don't know if it's fake or what the real capacity is. [Solution] Here are the exact steps that worked for me on Ubuntu: [Terminal] Install f3: sudo apt update ...
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