Samsung T5 SSD, how to mount?

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That was my guess as well…was just trying to confirm it before saying anything.

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No problem :slight_smile: I find it also hard to read. Below image should be (more) clear. Right?

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My best guess is the same as @Wollie’s. It might be a defective SSD or, more likely, something’s wrong with the power’s supply. Hey, it might even be the cable!

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I tried different physical ports. Also, I had never had issues before with my ports. I am guessing it is more probable that the device is not compatible. But how would I know that for sure?

I tried two different cables.

Is there some sort of encrytion active on the disk? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1341088/how-access-files-on-portable-ssd-samsung-t5-on-ubuntu-20-04

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If there was, it would still have been listed with

sudo lsblk

Test it i another PC, and see if it works there…

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Jup, I was on my way to test it on a Windows machine. I just tried, and it works, plug and play. It has some sort of tool where you can specify a password. I did not activate it. So I guess it is not encrypted now. Retested it on Manjaro after it with no difference as far as I can see.

I also found this source, but it is just one source which says it is not compatible with Linux? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204208/samsung-ssd-t5-compatibily-with-ubuntu

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Try

$ lsusb -v

I vaguely remember one thread where the t5 ssd showed up after using that command…

edit: found it

But that should be fixed now according to the newest post in that thread :man_shrugging:

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Yeah, I also came across that theard. I tried the command. The device is listed. What do I do after it? I don’t see any difference.

How do I know If I have the fix on my system? I did an upgrade of my system since a long time yesterday. Now I want to back up everything. I think I am also on an older kernel, 4.14.257-1.

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This could be a factor, try to rule it out. Trying newer/current kernels is easy on manjaro:
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Kernels

Try to list partitions and/or mount them:

$ fdisk -l
$ lsblk -f
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On the Arch site about this problem was posted:

The patch was merged on kernel version:
4.4.293
4.9.291
4.14.256
4.19.218

5.4.160
5.10.80
5.14.19
5.15.3

All available kernels in Manjaro are above and should have the fix. :neutral_face: