[Smartmontools-database] USB to NVME enclosure with ASMedia ASM2362 chip

[Christian Franke]

Haochen Tong wrote:
> I encountered a USB to NVME enclosure with an ASMedia ASM2362 chip,
> which is not currently supported by smartmontools. It's vendor/product
> ID is 174c:2362. I am only able to extract a little bit of useful
> information using smartctl 7.0 with this enclosure:
>
> $ sudo smartctl -x -d scsi /dev/sda
> smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-5.2.3-zen1-1-zen] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Vendor:               ITHOO
> Product:              ASM236X NVME
> Revision:             0
> Compliance:           SPC-4
> ...

This is the SCSI view of this device.

> I'm not sure what to do to go further beyond this point, but I've
> found a Windows app called CrystalDiskInfo (MIT licensed) that claims
> to support this chip: [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/hiyohiyo/CrystalDiskInfo/commit/6dc4897f5fe60b301370d9ea73f42ddfa5310345

Thanks for the info. I created a ticket:
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1221

If you are willing to test a future smartctl prototype with ASM2362 
support, feel free to send me an email.

Thanks,
Christian