Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: Hard disk error (Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY DEVICE) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 14:07:02 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <6orcclxu42.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <7263clxr47.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9GNtqDj5Kivm0qztK98IaACLh5PeBlIdCm2/SgCQ8jrcq88rK1 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:P8vCzF7JWqIhi3vaJJriGBWFYLY= sha256:47Zln5eZ4lm6Cih6T5kIXDCRuKGiyOP/k+2kDdAzOWc= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:81296 On 2025-04-07 11:42, Simon wrote: > On 2025-04-05, Java Jive wrote: >> On 2025-04-05 11:47, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> >>> On 2025-04-05 01:20, Java Jive wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2025-04-04 21:52, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Huh, I have an idea. If this box in the end is not valid, I could rip >>>>> it out and insert usb2sata connectors on the back of each disk. Use >>>>> only the power supply and the iron. It would be ugly and impose a >>>>> delay on my project, and waste of money, but would work. >>>> >>>> Wouldn't it be easier to try to solve the firmware problem?  If you're >>>> going to destroy the innards, invalidate the warranty, and so not be >>>> able to return it anyway, why not try installing a fixed firmware first? >>> >>> But someone has to provide the fixed software file. >> >> Paul gave you a big clue in his post of 2025-04-04, 04:33. He didn't >> want to give actual links because he couldn't verify their sources, but >> you can search on the file names he gave, for example: >> >> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jms578fwupdater.tgz >> > > I found a fix to this some time ago, maybe it will help still now? https://blog.simonj.eu/blog/jms578-based-adaptor-on-linux What does this do? The link doesn't explain. Google says that this changes usb-disk driver "UAS" to "usb-storage". Why would I need that, what is the advantage? -- Cheers, Carlos.