How to get EXT4 drive to mount reliably?

Hi guys! So I've been having a super frustrating time trying to get my EXT4 drive to even mount. I can plug it into my arch laptop and it is immediately recognized and mountable. I try on libreelec and it takes many restarts and shutdowns and plugs/unplugs of the drive to get it to mount, making for a really annoying experience. I've checked log files and dmesg and every time I plug in nothing shows up in either, until it randomly works in which dmesg will show the mount. I was thinking it was my USB to sata adapter, but I question that given that out of my main arch distribution and an Ubuntu, kubuntu, and another arch, it is instantly recognised in blkid/lsblk/fdisk there