gday all, looking for some guidance or to be pushed into the right direction.

I recently installed Linux, (bazzite, but I will be changing to something with more control as I feel bazzite is tryjng to protect me too much which causes other issues, possibly this )

so I installed bazzite, everything went fine with no issues. I attempted to connect my TR-002 QNAP via usb as a STORAGE DRIVE. Linux detects the drive being connected and powered on, however it shows as 12tb unallocated. I know it's allocated as I can swap my boot drive (physically, not dual booting) back to Windows and all data is present and usable.

I attempted previously to edit fstab and manually add it as a drive, ya that failed miserably and resulted in me needing to boot into grub to rebuild my fstab. (when I learned I don't like bazzite as it revoked my root access, hence grub).

Is there anything I should be looking at or doing in order to get this drive to connect as storage? I suspect windows l, when I first created the QNAP did some fuckery and didn't load the partition tables or something.

just looking for someone to point me I t he right direction, worst case I remove bazzitr and install something like popos or Ubuntu as I know I'd have more control, and the fact that bazzite does not like NTFS (even though this isn't the os drive). other USB drives I have that are NTFS, show up perfectly without issue. only this qnap