[Smartmontools-database] USB external drive reports "Read Device Identity failed"

[Robert Stocker]

Happy for any suggestions!

Seagate (STEB8000100) Expansion Desktop 8TB, USB 3.0 attached to Raspberry
Pi 4B. Listed at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids albeit with different
model number and capacity.

relevant lsusb output:
ID 0bc2:331a Seagate RSS LLC

Trying 'sudo smartctl --all -d sat -T permissive /dev/sda' returns:

smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [armv7l-linux-5.4.72-v7l+] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     [No Information Found]
Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   [No Information Found]
Local Time is:    Fri Dec  4 10:39:49 2020 EST
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if
SMART supported.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if
SMART is enabled.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.
pi at Cally:~ $ sudo smartctl --smart=on -d sat /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [armv7l-linux-5.4.72-v7l+] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.
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