etcher: Etcher doesnt recognize USB drive

Etcher version: 1.2.1
Operating system and architecture: mac OS High Sierra version 10.13.2
Image flashed: ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? No. And my laptop is detecting the external drive. Command run: diskutil list /dev/disk2 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk2 1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk2s1 2: Microsoft Basic Data AQZ007 4.0 TB disk2s2

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

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OK; I’ll let you know if there are subsequent problems.

timrowledge on Mar 26, 2018

This is the current output, however the device is also listed in Etcher now. I’ll repost when I hit the bug again.

[ { enumerator: 'diskutil',
    busType: 'UNKNOWN',
    busVersion: '0.0',
    device: '/dev/disk0',
    raw: '/dev/rdisk0',
    description: 'APPLE SSD AP0512J',
    error: null,
    size: 500277792768,
    blockSize: null,
    logicalBlockSize: null,
    mountpoints: [],
    isReadOnly: false,
    isSystem: true,
    isVirtual: null,
    isRemovable: null,
    isCard: null,
    isSCSI: null,
    isUSB: null,
    isUAS: null },
  { enumerator: 'diskutil',
    busType: 'UNKNOWN',
    busVersion: '0.0',
    device: '/dev/disk1',
    raw: '/dev/rdisk1',
    description: 'APPLE SSD AP0512J',
    error: null,
    size: 499313172480,
    blockSize: null,
    logicalBlockSize: null,
    mountpoints: [ [Object], [Object] ],
    isReadOnly: false,
    isSystem: true,
    isVirtual: null,
    isRemovable: null,
    isCard: null,
    isSCSI: null,
    isUSB: null,
    isUAS: null },
  { enumerator: 'diskutil',
    busType: 'UNKNOWN',
    busVersion: '0.0',
    device: '/dev/disk2',
    raw: '/dev/rdisk2',
    description: 'STORAGE DEVICE',
    error: null,
    size: 15931539456,
    blockSize: null,
    logicalBlockSize: null,
    mountpoints: [ [Object] ],
    isReadOnly: false,
    isSystem: false,
    isVirtual: null,
    isRemovable: null,
    isCard: null,
    isSCSI: null,
    isUSB: null,
    isUAS: null } ]

peterjuras on Jan 31, 2018

Have you tried enabling Etcher’s “unsafe mode” in the settings? Etcher might be mis-identifying such a large drive as a “System Drive” (which we hide by default).

lurch on Jan 10, 2018