Stabilizing USB HDD connection

Hello,

I’m often attaching my HDD to one of my AppVMs based on Debian 12 XFCE template with sys-usb.
From time to time the HDD is losing it’s connection and I’m not able to do much.

Is this something known, or perhaps someone can share a direction what it might be and what to check?

I never experienced this. My external HDD would suspend after some time without use to save power, and it may take a while to access it again, but it doesn’t completely loose the connection.

Do you have anything related in systemctl -r in your qube? Do you have the same problem with a Fedora template?

This seems slightly related: External USB drives possibly interrupting backup by going to sleep · Issue #7797 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub