Bug 514538

Summary: USB bay drives don't always show
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Paul <Sandman192>
Component: kcm_deviceautomounterAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: nate, tdfischer
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.5.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Bazzite   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514548
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Description Paul 2026-01-13 15:12:23 UTC 
SUMMARY
USB devices from a StaarTech USB 2 bay drive doesn't always see any drives. Taking drives out and back in again fixes the issue but does it again.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Turn on and wait if it sees any drives
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OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


Operating System: Bazzite 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba22.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (60.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2026-01-13 20:22:49 UTC 
> Taking drives out and back in again fixes the issue
That would suggest the drive bay enclosure is actually cutting off access to the devices by the OS after a period of time. Unfortunately this means there's not much KDE can do about it.

I'd recommend talking to the manufacturer about it.
Comment 2 Paul 2026-01-14 00:18:09 UTC 
Assuming it's the manufacturer?
It works fine in Windows for over 2 years.
Sorry you need to give more information on who to report this to.
Linux does not come with a manual or where to report this issue.
Even Help documents in the Bazzite doesn't help.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2026-01-14 00:31:58 UTC 
I'd recommend you contact your distro about it. Hopefully they can help you. The reason is because this is a bug tracker for KDE software, not a general support channel for issues not traceable to KDE's software being at fault.