Questions tagged [uasp]

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How can I check whether USB3.0 UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) mode is enabled in Linux?

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 15.04 (3.19.0-21-generic) and an external USB3.0 2.5" SATA HDD enclosure which claims that it supports UASP mode (the S2510BPU33 model by StarTech). I have no problems mounting the drive or reading/writing to it. I'd…
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No TRIM/DISCARD with a SATA SSD connected through an UASP-enabled USB adapter?

I just bought a SATA SSD and a USB-SATA adapter. I chose an adapter with UASP support, because I thought it would make it possible to run a TRIM/DISCARD command, and I think it is important for the lifetime of the SSD. When I connect the adapter to…
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Are there UASP flash drives with TRIM/UNMAP support?

It seems that most of the high-end external SSD enclosures and external SSDs support UASP and TRIM/UNMAP. Wikipedia does mention thumb drives but provides no further details: USB Attached SCSI (UAS) or USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) is…
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UASP requirements: does the HD need to support UASP?

According to this article, these are the requirements to have UASP enabled: UAS support in the USB driver stack. Device hardware supporting UAS. Device firmware supporting UAS. UAS-compatible system controller. I have a very new laptop (Skylake)…
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Disable UASP on Windows 10 build 1607

Is there anyway to disable USB 3 UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) support on Windows 10 build 1607 for devices which use Microsoft's drivers, and force the attached devices to communicate in BOT mode instead?
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how to disable UAS for usb without knowing prior device id in grub?

I have a usb hub with external USB HDD disks. I found out that seagate HDDs do not give smart information if UAS is enabled specifically in linux (due to copyrights?). Here, read the discussion. There is some options to disable UAS specifically for…
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Does it improve data longivity if I power up a usb drive once a while?

I'm using a UAS(USB attached SCSI) USB drive for photo archiving (Kingston DataTraveler Max, with Silicon Motion 2320 UAS contoller, zoned psudo-slc + TLC). I know that NAND flash needs to be powered up once a while so that the flash controller…
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Can I still use a UASP enabled SATA-to-USB 3.0 adapter when my laptop doesn't UASP?

I' m looking to buy a SATA-to-USB adapter for an external HDD. On Amazon I came across this adapter from UGREEN (SB 3.0 IDE SATA Hard Drive Adapter for 2.5/3.5 Inch SATA HDD SSD with External DC 12V 2A Power Supply) that has UASP enabled for even…
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UAS USB driver problems with Linux, but not with windows, technical explanation

I'm also getting a lot of these uas_eh_device_reset_handler errors like alread described here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/441668/debian-usb3-hdd-uas-i-o-errors : Feb 17 01:14:13 systemname kernel: [43673.914621] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#17…
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how do I disable usap as my docking station corrupts the drive currently

My hard drive works fine using USB3/UASP on my laptop. However if I plug it into the Dell d3100 docking station then it reports file corruption and I have to reformat the disk. I am guessing D3100 does not support UASP but was a bit surprised it…
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UASP not working on Yottamaster 4 Bay USB3.0 enclosure

My development server is running out of disk space so I've bought a Yottamaster 4-bay USB 3 enclosure. I've got 4 x 2TB SATA-3 3.5" drives that I want to use first but also squeeze as much performance but keep redundancy so I was planning to use…