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Why new USB device is not found?

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I installed Ubuntu on my new laptop.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 21.10
Release:    21.10
Codename:   impish

lsblk

loop15        7:15   0 154,9M  1 loop /snap/firefox/996
sda           8:0    0 698,6G  0 disk 
nvme0n1     259:0    0 476,9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0 476,4G  0 part /

I checked then dmesg output

[  370.446115] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[  370.466884] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=1078, bcdDevice=10.65
[  370.466897] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[  370.466900] usb 4-2: Product: Elements 1078
[  370.466903] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Western Digital
[  370.466906] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 575835314139353059563752
[  370.486110] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  370.486565] scsi host2: usb-storage 4-2:1.0
[  370.486650] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  370.488297] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[  371.511396] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       Elements 1078    1065 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[  371.512218] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[  371.514115] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
[  372.535182] .....ready
[  376.731033] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1465081856 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/699 GiB)
[  376.731751] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[  376.731761] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 53 00 10 08
[  376.732453] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[  376.732466] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

The GUI does not detect my new USB mass storage device. What should I try?

Wayne Vosberg avatar
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What is your new device? What is the output of `lsusb`? If it is the new drive (sda) try `gnome-disks` to partition it and create a filesystem on it.
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