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

[Christian Franke]

Robert Stocker wrote:
> 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 <http://www.smartmontools.org>
>
> Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command
>

Seagate devices usually support SAT, except on Linux if UAS transfer 
mode is enabled:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SAT-with-UAS-Linux