Re: [Smartmontools-database] JMicron USB3 bridge compatibility

[Daniel J B. <da...@qu...>]

On 5 August 2014 16:57, Christian Franke <Chr...@t-...> wrote:
> Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>>
>> I have a SATA dock with a JMicron USB3 bridge [1], which works well
>> with UASP [2]. It isn't recognised by SVN trunk smartctl [3,4].
>>
>> What steps would be useful to see if we can support the protocol?
>> Initial USB IDs provided [5].
>> ...
>>
>> # ./smartctl -x /dev/sdb
>> smartctl 6.4 2014-07-26 r3977 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-031600-generic] (local
>> build)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
>> www.smartmontools.org
>>
>> /dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x152d:0x9561 (0x6207)]
>> Please specify device type with the -d option.
>>
>> Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
>>
>> -- [4]
>>
>> # smartctl --all -d usbjmicron,x /dev/sdb
>> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-031600-generic] (local
>> build)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
>> www.smartmontools.org
>>
>> Smartctl open device: /dev/sdb [USB JMicron] failed: No device connected
>
> Try '-d usbjmicron,N' with N=0 or 1. If it works try '-d usbjmicron,x,N'
> with -x or --xall.
> (-a, --all do not use 48-bit commands which are enabled by ,x)
>
> Newer JMicron bridges may also support -d sat.

Thanks for your reply. Alas, we still get failure [1,2,3]. I see there
are some commands for debugging; any tips, or perhaps I should
instrument all incoming and outgoing data?

Thanks,
  Daniel

-- [1]

# ./smartctl -d usbjmicron,0 -x /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2014-07-26 r3977 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.

-- [2]

# ./smartctl -d usbjmicron,1 -x /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2014-07-26 r3977 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.

-- [3]

# ./smartctl -d sat -x /dev/sdcsmartctl 6.4 2014-07-26 r3977
[x86_64-linux-3.13.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
Device Model:     ST3500620AS
Serial Number:    9QM85G72
Firmware Version: 13501070
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is:    Tue Aug  5 17:26:46 2014 BST

==> WARNING: There are known problems with these drives,
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207951en
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207957en

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is:   Unavailable
APM feature is:   Disabled
Rd look-ahead is: Disabled
Write cache is:   Enabled
ATA Security is:  Disabled, frozen [SEC2]
Wt Cache Reorder: Unavailable

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:         (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:              (0x00)     Offline data collection not supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0000)    Automatic saving of SMART
data        is not implemented.
Error logging capability:        (0x00)    Error logging NOT supported.
                    No General Purpose Logging support.

ATA_READ_LOG_EXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: scsi error
aborted command
Read GP Log Directory failed

SMART Log Directory Version 0
Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
0x00           SL  R/O      1  Log Directory

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported

SMART Error Log not supported

SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported

SMART Self-test Log not supported

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

SCT Commands not supported

Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04) not supported

SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) not supported
-- 
Daniel J Blueman