0x0472:0x2053 Silicon Power 1TB external USB drive need -d sat by default

[adamm]

The drive is not recognized by default, but by adding -d sat, it works.

​http://www.silicon-power.com/product/product_detail.php?main=19&sub=58&pro=132&currlang=utf8&frist_menu=2

sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdj
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-05 r3561 [x86_64-linux-3.4-trunk-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/dev/sdj: Unsupported USB bridge [0x174c:0x55aa (0x100)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary



adamm@mira:~$ lsusb -d 174c:
Bus 001 Device 020: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. 



$ sudo smartctl -d sat -i /dev/sdj
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-05 r3561 [x86_64-linux-3.4-trunk-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Serial Number:    S2S6J9CC803467
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0004cf 2081b8c0a
Firmware Version: 2AR10001
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is:    Wed Aug 29 14:08:52 2012 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

[Christian Franke]

Already fixed in r3588. Run /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb to test.

[adamm]

Aha! Yes, works very well with updated drivedb.h