Is my USB drive dying?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/01/2014 06:37 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 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 fix this since it'd come with a newer version of the drive database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.
AFAICT, though their web-page mentions this drive, it's not yet in their 
generated
http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/smartmontools/drivedb.h?format=raw

> 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.
Absolutely.

As you mentioned in another post, my guess would also be a this error to 
originate from an USB>SATA bridge issue. Now that you mentioned it, I 
recall having had similar issues with PCIe->USB3 card several years ago 
(The infamous "Renesas/NEC" driver issues). Unfortunately, I don't 
recall what has resolved these for me :(

Ralf