I am running ESXi 4, and I'm using an external hard drive, Western Digital Passport 1TB, passing it through to a VM to offload backups. It works fine when it is detected, but over time it changes to a status of "device not present" in the VM settings, and I have to unplug and plug it back in for it to be seen again. This is rather annoying as I mostly telecommute from the office, and rarely go in. Previously, I was using a Dell RD1000 drive, that uses removable hard disks, and never had a problem with that device going into this state. I'm thinking about switching back, but wanted to see if there was anything I could do other than reseating this USB drive to get it detected again. Is there anything I can do from the command line or otherwise to get it redetected?
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