Is my USB drive dying?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/01/2014 03:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> /dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x059f:0x1053 (0x006)]

googling for "usb id 0x059f:0x1053" points to
http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices

which indicates
LaCie Porsche design Desktop drive P'9230 	? 	0x059f:0x1053 	Lacie USB 
3.0 4TB external drive 	-d sat

> 1TB Porsche Design P'9230 External Hard Drive - SuperSpeed USB 3.0
> <http://www.ecost.com/p/product%7Edpno%7E8864372%7Epdp.gijajeb>
This would match the smartmontools' web page.

If the page cited above is right, appending "-d sat" to the smartctl's 
command line should help.

Should this help, to have this issue permanently resolved, upstream 
smartctl/smartmontools and/or Fedora should add an entry corresponding 
to this drive to smartmontools's drivedb.h

Ralf