Small CNC not reading USBs?

There was a pretty extensive conversation about problems including this one (#2 in the original post linked).

The consensus if I remember right was that it’s more reliable to copy jobs to the controller’s internal memory and run them from there, instead of directly off the USB drive. My issue is that I frequently have problems getting it to recognize the presence of the USB drive in the first place.

I’m not too sure where that discussion landed.