I bought a 5 Tb Passport external drive (HDD), which I use for backing up data. But, I have 2 WD drives (HDD) installed on my multimedia machine with the 1 USB it works, but with 2 USB external drives it does not. It will refuse to recognize the second external drives through any USB port, regardless if I am running Linux or Microsoft.
(This seems to be an issue with Seagate and Toshiba drives also, external only.) Now craziest part about this if I am trying to transfer files from one USB drive to another USB drive neither one will work. I have a Toshiba external drive along with the WD or Seagate, all of them that are over 1Tb, seem to have this issue.
But if I use a flash drive or SSD drive with an HDD drive they will work. Now, not only this but my laptop also experiences the same issue. I have reinstalled my OS’s on both separate machines and the same issue still occurs. None of the older HDD drives ever had that issue like this but the new drives these days do. In the old days external devices used IRQ ports, and if 2 devices used the same IRQ, they would cancel each other out, I am wondering if this is the same type of issue. Or is this some kind of encoding issues? What gives?
