[smartmontools-support] Unrecognised USB Bridge Device

[Colin Payne]

Hi,

I am using a USB to mSATA SSD board “Pi-102” manufactured by Lycom (http://www.lycom.com.tw/Pi-102.htm)

The Pi-102's USB bridge chip is upd720231A manufactured by Renesas (https://www.renesas.com/en-eu/products/usb-assp/upd720231a.html)

I’m running Smartmontools on a Raspberry Pi 3, and when I run:

$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda -s on

…I expected to see a detailed report of the drive data, but instead I got:

/dev/sda: Unknown USB bridge [0x045b:0x0229 (0x000)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

Reading through the Smartmontools support archive, it appears that the Renesas upd720231A USB bridge is listed, but with a different idVendor:idProduct (0x045b:0x022a):

https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/mailman/message/34792018/

…and in a changeset on the smartmontools.org site: https://www.smartmontools.org/changeset/4303

How do I go about getting the USB bridge I’m using added so that I can use Smartmontools for SSDs connected via the Lycom Pi-102, please?

Many thanks,

Colin

[Christian Franke]

Post by Colin Payne
I am using a USB to mSATA SSD board “Pi-102” manufactured by Lycom (http://www.lycom.com.tw/Pi-102.htm)
The Pi-102's USB bridge chip is upd720231A manufactured by Renesas (https://www.renesas.com/en-eu/products/usb-assp/upd720231a.html)
$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda -s on
/dev/sda: Unknown USB bridge [0x045b:0x0229 (0x000)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.

Try '-d sat' option and report the result to smartmontools-database
mailing list.

If SAT works, we could later add this USB ID to drivedb.h. Then this
option will be no longer needed for this bridge. Note that you could
also add a local drive database entry. See section about '-B' option on
smartctl man page.

Thanks,
Christian

[Colin Payne]

Hi Christian,

Thank you for the suggestion, using ‘-d sat’ worked. I’ll do as you suggest and report the result to smartmoxntools-database mailing list.

Kind regards,

Colin

Post by Colin Payne
I am using a USB to mSATA SSD board “Pi-102” manufactured by Lycom (http://www.lycom.com.tw/Pi-102.htm)
The Pi-102's USB bridge chip is upd720231A manufactured by Renesas (https://www.renesas.com/en-eu/products/usb-assp/upd720231a.html)
$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda -s on
/dev/sda: Unknown USB bridge [0x045b:0x0229 (0x000)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.

Try '-d sat' option and report the result to smartmontools-database mailing list.

If SAT works, we could later add this USB ID to drivedb.h. Then this option will be no longer needed for this bridge. Note that you could also add a local drive database entry. See section about '-B' option on smartctl man page.

Thanks,
Christian