enclosure cases interfere commands sent windows for hdd?

[nandobadam]

My enclosures case USB 3.0 models Orico 25PW1 black and Kesu 2530 uses the ASM235CM or JMicron generic JMS578 chips. Do these two chips have full support to pass on all commands and signals from Windows to safely eject and remove hardware to park the 2.5" HDD heads even without disconnecting the USB cable from the enclosure and PC?

Does the brand, model, chip and firmware of the USB 3.0 enclosure case interfere with these processes of sending signals and commands from Windows to the 2.5" HDD?

 

[_roman_]

-- short: These smart commands never worked on any of my usb to pata / sata bridges. I call those bridges - you call them case usb 3.0 ...

-- details:

I assume you are talking about the smart values from hdds / ssds.

I use gnu gentoo linux since 2006. For pata or sata based HDDs, SSDs you can use smartctl command to see those smartvalues.


I had different cases. i used those enclosures with different ssds and hdds.

• several different supermarket usb 2.0 external hdds
• several different usb 2.0 enclosure for 2.5 pata
• several different usb 2.0 enclosure for 2.5 sata
• usb 3.0 enclosure with 2.5" sata used with more than 10 different sata 128GB (two 256GB) SSDs, a few hdds
• two weeks returned to amazon for crapy build quality - usb 3 enclosure with sata and nvme protocol for m2. (tested with dead sata m2 from hp laptp i repaired / tested with two of my own known good western digital and cruical m2 nvme)
• usb 3 enclosure m2 nvme (used with 3 different drives)

None ever returned any smart stuff.

I just show you the output for my current in use connected sata hdd to my mainboard sata header. Note. I cut of the rest of the output. It's similar to the stuff you see on any other operating system.

Sienna_Cichlid /home/roman # smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.12.6-gentoo_19_12_2024] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint F2 EG
Device Model:     SAMSUNG HD154UI
Serial Number:    S1Y6J1KSA08572
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0024e9 0024a11a3
Firmware Version: 1AG01118
User Capacity:    1,500,301,910,016 bytes [1.50 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database
...

with usb based one you get nothing for an output.

 

[Hardcore Games]

More recent USB docks might be more successful as new models add more features.