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I'm currently on the market for a PS4 Pro latest model with controller on FW 9.00 or 11.00 :P

Also I tried this on this page and nothing...

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/using-removable-media


Yes, it's time to investigate Thunar > Preferences > Advanced > Volume Management. This is what you you've linked, but you haven't specified what you actually tried.


I ticked the ...

The DVDR drive shows up in thunar under computer:/// but not on the "Devices" side pane, Does not show on the box to tick,
How do I put DVDR drive to show on devices side pane?


If you right-click on the word Devices in the panel on the side of Thunar, you should be able to see a menu of ...

On Win11 the DVDRW drive shows up in file explorer but on MX it does not show on devices...


Silly question: what disc did you put in the DVD-RW drive?


There no disc inserted at the moment.
I tested the DVDR on Win11 and audio cds and dvds was working.
Then I had to go to other place to ...

The DVDR drive shows up in thunar under computer:/// but not on the "Devices" side pane, Does not show on the box to tick,
How do I put DVDR drive to show on devices side pane?

We need a new QSI now.


Snapshot created on: 20250327_2331
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64 [6.1.129-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-32-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4 ...

Ok,
I ended up reinstalling MX from a one month old laptop on the 240GB SSD. This drive now has W11, mx boot-efi/, root/, home/ and /swap.
On the place I had the HDD CD-ROM caddy I put the DVD-RW back in the original one it came with.
On Win11 the DVDRW drive shows up in file explorer but on MX it ...

Don't give up too quickly. Your 500 GB drive SDA has no partitions. Recreate you partitions on that drive, if you are able, then restore the contents from your backups, in particular /home. If you don't have backups, your data is likely toast. What is the state of your data backups?

Note: The ...

$ sudo fsck /dev/sda
fsck from util-linux 2.38.1
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
fsck.ext2: Input/output error while trying to open /dev/sda



sda is a device, not a partition. fsck only works on file systems, so "fsck /dev/sda" won't do anything. In this case, it looks like that drive doesn't ...

You could try a to run fsck on it, but it looks like your HD has indeed failed. Smartctl results may show us for sure


This is what it looks like to me as well.


System info from live USB snapshot, sdb is not mounting. Does not show on gparted


If sdb is not mounting, your course of action ...