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I'm using Mageia 9 beta 1 with KDE.
When I click on the USB icon on the task bar, my two SSDs show up as "removable devices" The window that pops up is set to "removable devices."
Why do my two SSDs show up there when they aren't really removable? My hard disks (one is an SATA drive and two nvme drives don't show up unless I click "non-removable" or "all devices."

I noticed this behavior in later KDE updates for Mageia 8, too.

Thank you.

lloyd wrote:Why do my two SSDs show up there when they aren't really removable? My hard disks (one is an SATA drive and two nvme drives don't show up unless I click "non-removable" or "all devices."

This lacks a lot of information and is unclear....so you have overall 5 drives? How are the two SSD connected? If it is via USB then it is clear why they are recognized as removable.

Do you habe hotplug enabled in BIOS?

Something like that can also happen if a user mounts a internal drive under /media instead of /mnt where it belongs to...

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Did you already do a basic search "ssd is showing as removable device linux"? What did you already check of all of the given results from this search?

Apparently, hotplug was the culprit. I disabled it and all is well. Thank you for your solution.