Hacking Cannot read USB Drive after CIOS update

[Kronzky]

I've been using a WD Passport drive for many years now, and never had a problem.
But, after I updated some of my IOS versions my loader (USB Loader GS 1271) doesn't recognize the drive anymore.
It still works fine if I hook it up to my PC, and let the Backup Manager read it, but on the Wii it's not being detected.
The loader gives me a message about either using IOS222 or IOS249, but neither of them work.

Spoiler: SysCheck report (249 & 250 were updated)

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS55 (rev 4633).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 3.1U (v257)

Drive date: 09.07.2006
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS38

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 37707242
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Canada (18)
Boot2 v2
Found 188 titles.
Found 30 IOS on this console. 1 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 3): Stub
IOS9 (rev 516): Flash Access
IOS11 (rev 10): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 6): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS13 (rev 10): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS14 (rev 257): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS15 (rev 257): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 512): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS20 (rev 12): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 514): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS22 (rev 772): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS28 (rev 1288): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS30 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS33 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS34 (rev 1039): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS35 (rev 1040): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS36 (rev 1042): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS38 (rev 3609): No Patches
IOS53 (rev 5406): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 4633): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5146): Trucha Bug
IOS202[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS232 (rev 7): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
// was: IOS249[38] (rev 14): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
// was: IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v2
MIOS v8
Report generated on 11/21/2020.

P.S. It turns out that WiiFlow and NeoGamma can both read the drive, only USB Loader GS is having problems.
When I checked its config file ([SDCARD]\config\GXGlobal.cfg), the cios setting was 0, so I changed it to 249, but that didn't help. I deleted the config file altogether, but that too didn't make a difference...

 

[Kronzky]

Since this seemed to be a pretty unique issue (going by the lack to replies), I figured I may as well start all over.
So, I finally updated my system from 3.1 to 4.3, re-hacked, re-patched and re-installed it all, and now it works again.
(It seems that a lot of apps and tools didn't like V3.1, and, instead of fixing stuff, they just made things worse, so, going with the latest OS seemed to be the best/only solution...)