A helpful person on the Ubuntu forums sent me a patched usb-storage.ko that was built using your patch file. Here's what the system had to say when I tried it with the modified /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-uas.conf w/r: options usb-storage quirks=059f:105f:k Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=059f, idProduct=105f, bcdDevice= 0.01 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: Product: 2Big Quadra USB3 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: LaCie Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 00000000250e9e711084 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon mtp-probe[2490]: checking bus 2, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1" Dec 02 11:02:01 charon mtp-probe[2490]: bus: 2, device: 2 was not an MTP device Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb_storage: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usb_storage: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: scsi host5: uas Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access LaCie 2Big Quadra v3 051E PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver uas Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon mtp-probe[2499]: checking bus 2, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1" Dec 02 11:02:01 charon mtp-probe[2499]: bus: 2, device: 2 was not an MTP device Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 7814025564 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 TB/3.64 TiB) Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 Dec 02 11:02:01 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Dec 02 11:02:17 charon kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 Dec 02 11:02:17 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes Dec 02 11:02:18 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Read Capacity(16) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Dec 02 11:02:18 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available. Dec 02 11:02:18 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Dec 02 11:02:18 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available. Dec 02 11:02:18 charon kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B) Regards David -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Neukum [mailto:oneukum@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 26 November 2020 10:22 To: David C. Partridge; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Issues with LaCie USB3 drive and UAS Am Donnerstag, den 26.11.2020, 09:33 +0000 schrieb David C. Partridge: > I tried that but that wiped out the debian folder :( Hi, that is a pronblem as I do not use Debian, nor know a lot about it. You can try "make clean" instead of "make mrproper" , as it is milder. And yes, this is programmer humor. HTH Oliver