External USB3 storage - I/O errors

  • Hi there,

    I'm trying to resolve the problem I got on my fresh OMV setup.

    It has TRIGKEY Mini PC G5 (Intel N100, 16G DDR5, 512 SSD).

    Have FANTEC qb-35u31 connected via USB-C.

    Installed only one HDD - Seagate Ironwolf Pro (4 TB)

    Any IO actions with this drive create the following errors (this is an example after "dd if=/dev/zero of=benchmark.img bs=1G count=5 status=progress"):


    I rolled back to pure Debian to check if the problem was with OMV, but the behavior remains the same.

    Current kernel:

    Quote

    6.1.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.90-1 (2024-05-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux


    the same FANTEC qb-35u3 works smoothly connected to a Windows desktop (USB3.1 Gen2)


    checked a similar error here: USB errors when using USB 3.0 external disk and SMART


    But the "quirks" trick doesn't help. The errors are different, but the result is the same—the drive is useless.

  • macom

    Approved the thread.
  • OK. After some research and trying different solutions, I found that only one of the four different available USB ports works appropriately with uas (and usb-storage, I believe, will work, too).

    for TRIGKEY Mini PC G5 it is standard USB on the back (near HDMI ports, and NOT USB-C port). USB-C, both frontal USBs do not support external USB3.1 drivers.


    probably the topic can be closed :)

  • Exact same with me. All disks that I had connected to front USB ports, produced ugly IO errors. Connecting to back ports is working without issues.


    Does someone know why?

    AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650G with ECC unbuffered 32GB.


    ...with zfs as only filesystem in use -> pass encrypted root, key encrypted pools, compression zstd (and lz4 where better suited) and adjusted recordsize for ssd and hdd. Zfs is also doing mirror (root, boot), stripe (io drive) and raidz (data storage). Most optimized for response, io drive optimised for throughput. Zfs is really versatile 8)

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