Absolutely nothing. Please do a “snow leopard” release and just fix/optimize everything ???
AMEN! times 100!
I am the owner of a new Mac Studio Ultra and can't keep a USB external drive reliably connected to it. That drive worked fine for several years on the Intel iMac this Ultra replaced and still remains connected to that old iMac if I take it and the same cable and hook them back together.
I've tried ALL of the possible solutions offered online, including the more extreme ones like the sudo command in terminal to switch drive sleep from 10 to the maximum. Nothing works.
I've tried both ports, 3 different cables, not letting the Studio sleep, not letting the drive sleep, etc.
Having methodically worked through every possibility I can find by others suffering the same issue (since apparently Big Sur), I'm down to only 2 more things I can try:
- USB-C to USB-B cable arriving tomorrow. This will test if maybe this issue is only with the USB-A ports on the Studio.
- Reformat the drive with Monterey. It's already APFS and First Aid shows no issues, so I'm doubting a completely fresh formatting run will make any difference... but it's the last thing I can try.
Basically, I'd like the
U in USB to actually apply here. I think I recall that the FIRST iMacs came with USB so I would assume USB-related code is thoroughly debugged in macOS all these years later. And yet, here we are. I can't believe that something working fine attached to even a 10-year-old Mac running 10.13.6 can NOT remain consistently connected to "latest & greatest" running latest & greatest macOS.
I'm 110% for a Snow Leopard-type year
or two to fix, fix, fix instead of add, add, add.
I miss "just works," especially in something as seemingly rudimentary as keeping an external drive connected to a USB port.
Followup: That USB-C to USB-B cable arrived. Hooked them up and same result. So both USB-A and USB-C/TB4 jacks on a brand new Studio can't maintain a stable connection to a 2018 dual drive RAID box that works just fine with Intel Macs. Very frustrating!