Is my USB drive dying?

[Chris Murphy]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 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

Yeah, almost certainly using a newer version of smartmontools would
fix this since it'd come with a newer version of the drive database
and it'd know how to communicate with the chipset. But this won't fix
the originally cited error he's getting, it'll just let him get SMART
information from the drive; and also make it possible to issue
smartctl -t long to do an extended offline test on all drives.

I forget if smartmontools 5.43 includes update-smart-drivedb command.
If so, using that is worth a shot.



-- 
Chris Murphy