On 2022-04-27 13:36, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
The problem has been solved!
First; thank you very much to all who have responded.
It turned out to be the external docking station which created the hardware problem.
I naturally assumed that the operating system or the USB port was the culprit, because Mac OS X has no problem with finding the disk whereas openSUSE Leap 15.3 almost always fails to see the disk.
Now it turns out that the docking station to the left in this picture does not work with Leap 15.3, even if it works beautifully in OS X. The thing is that the one that does not work in Leap 15.3 is a twin station, whereas the one that works is a single station as this picture illustrates:
Did you try both receptacles? source or target?
http://www.coldsiberia.net/technics/docking_station_nonfunctional_functional...
Anyone who has experienced a similar problem? It is definitely noteworthy, and the next question is whether it is possible to make this work in Leap.
What brand? I had recently problems with a Conceptronics docking station. I partitioned a 6 TB hard disk, filled it with data, but it was unreadable when the disk was connected directly to the SATA bus or to other USB-SATA converters. It used a different layout. Single disk, never tried a double station, I don't have one. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)