disk not ejected properly since Ventura

I'm having the same issue. I have two external drives that plug into my old MacBook pro and mount instantly. Since Ventura, neither of them will power with the USB port. So I bought a USB hub that powers from the wall, hoping the issue would go away and it would at least turn on and recognize my HD. Nothing.

I cannot find either in disk utility even with show all drives selected. I reset SMC and all other steps, made sure external drives were selected in finder, etc.

I had to transfer all files off of one to another backup on my older MacBook just to try to reformat it differently to see if it would change anything. Nothing.

I'm really upset with this update and theres no way to roll back since all of my time machine backups were on the external HD that won't show up. I downloaded Monterey and was given an error message that I couldn't install it. I'm just completely frustrated.

Also, I have paid Apple to repair my USB ports less than a year ago. I had issues with just one port not connecting, so they replaced them and I had to pay for it, of course. My External worked after that, all the way until this update happened.

At first, I was mad thinking the newly repaired ports already faulted. But after finding out that I'm not the only one having this issue with the OS, maybe enough of us can find a way to get through to Apple to rectify this.

I hope Apple fixes this issue soon, or I'm selling this computer and going with a PC. Too many headaches.