[Discuss] Reliable external HD enclosure for Linux?

[Daniel Barrett]

On August 29, 2019, Rich Pieri wrote:
>I've encountered a few (budget brands from Micro Center) which claim
>UASP but acutally don't. Run "lsusb -t" and look for either
>"Driver=uas" or "Driver=usb-storage". If you don't see "Driver=uas"
>then it doesn't do UASP at all regardless of what it says on the box.

Thank you, Rich! Indeed, UAS support might be the problem, and there's
a workaround listed here:

  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/239782/connection-problem-with-usb3-external-storage-on-linux-uas-driver-problem

I'm trying it now and will post whether it works or not.

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Dan Barrett
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