Re: Unsupported USB 2.5" Mediasonic Drive Enclosure (h21-su3)

Graham Fleming wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Mediasonic 2.5" SATA HDD enclosure with USB 3.0 bridge. Model number is h21-su3: http://www.mediasonic.ca/product.php?id=1357293154
>
> When I run smartctl -a (latest version on linux 3.15), I get the following:
>
> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.15.5-1-ARCH] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> /dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x2109:0x0700 (0x005)]
> Please specify device type with the -d option.
>
> Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
>
> Any way to get this device working? I've tried -d sat and -d usbjmicron without success.
>
>

Try -d sat,12 for this (VIA?) bridge. There is a report that this works 
for ID 0x2109:0x0701.
http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices

Thanks,
Christian


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