I have a problem accessing an external drive connected with ASMedia ASM1153 USB 3.0 3 Gb/s to SATA adapter (bridge) on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. The external drive is not stable when connected to an USB3 port. I have two cables (i.e. USB-SATA bridges), one of which works perfectly on both USB3 and USB2, and another that works perfectly on USB2 but fails on USB3. In particular, an external drive connected to USB3 is at first read, but after 30 s to 1 min it is disconnected and reloaded in a loop. The list of devices on USB issued with lsusb returns
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 17ef:1012 Lenovo Lenovo ThinkPad Dock
**Bus 004 Device 010: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge**
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 17ef:1011 Lenovo
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 17ef:1012 Lenovo Lenovo ThinkPad Dock
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 138a:0017 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS 5011 fingerprint sensor
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0800 Microsoft Corp. Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v2.0
**Bus 003 Device 009: ID 174c:1153 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge**
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 04f2:b39a Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Integrated Camera
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 8087:07da Intel Corp.
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bdb:193e Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV N5321 gw
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
where the ID 174c:1153 is the faulty bridge cable. I am wondering why it is described differently compared to the same one with ID ** 174c:55aa** although the name is actually inside the list of devices in the description of the latter one.
I've seen similar questions, in particular this, where @nobody correctly guessed that the drive should work properly on USB2, letting me thinking it is a known issue.
As suggested, I tried to blacklist the device, i.e.
$ echo options usb-storage quirks=174c:5136:u | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-uas.conf
$ sudo update-initramfs -u
$ sudo reboot
but it had no effect. In particular, the command dmesg | tail -n 55 shows a series of I/O errors that are not present when the same cable with the same external drive is connected to the USB2.
[ 2835.992349] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[ 2836.013332] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=1153, bcdDevice= 0.01
[ 2836.013341] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[ 2836.013345] usb 4-2: Product: AS2115
[ 2836.013348] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: ASMedia
[ 2836.013350] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 00000000000000000000
[ 2836.015543] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2836.015825] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 1153: 800000
[ 2836.015943] scsi host7: usb-storage 4-2:1.0
[ 2836.260267] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, device number 12
[ 2836.552774] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 2836.577512] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=1153, bcdDevice= 0.01
[ 2836.577540] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[ 2836.577547] usb 4-2: Product: AS2115
[ 2836.577551] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: ASMedia
[ 2836.577555] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 00000000000000000000
[ 2836.580608] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2836.581063] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 1153: 800000
[ 2836.581283] scsi host7: usb-storage 4-2:1.0
[ 2837.608560] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ASMT 2115 0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 2837.608751] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2837.609570] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.82 TiB)
[ 2837.609812] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 2837.609814] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 2837.610050] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2837.755088] sdd: sdd1 < sdd5 >
[ 2837.777009] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2838.920504] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 2838.945816] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
[ 2838.945821] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 74 72 5a c8 00 01 00 00
[ 2838.945823] print_req_error: 22 callbacks suppressed
[ 2838.945824] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1953651400 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 14 prio class 0
[ 2839.724500] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 2839.745673] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
[ 2839.745680] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 74 72 7b c8 00 01 00 00
[ 2839.745681] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1953659848 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 17 prio class 0
[ 2841.200511] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 2841.221665] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
[ 2841.221669] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 74 73 0b c8 00 01 00 00
[ 2841.221670] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1953696712 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 22 prio class
EDIT:
With an external drive connected via the faulty bridge to an USB3 port, the output of smartctl --all /dev/sdg5 is the following
Smartctl open device: /dev/sdg5 failed: INQUIRY failed
