OK, now for the records: [ /etc/modprobe.d/usb-storage.conf ] # Add quirks for USB Mass Storage devices # # Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html # # Option #1: Use Kernel command line parameter # [1] Usage: usb-storage.quirks=<VID:PID:Flags> # [2] VendorID (VID) and ProductID (PID): # ASMedia M1042 USB-3.0 controller: VID: 174c PID: 55aa # [3] Flags: # t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) commands, uas only); # u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); # [4] Example: usb-storage.quirks=174c:55aa:t # # Option #2: Set quirk via sysfs # DEBUG: echo '174c:55aa:t' > /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/quirks # # Option #3: Pass options via /etc/modprobe.d/usb-storage.conf (this file here) # XXX: Do NOT forget to run `update-initramfs` command! options usb-storage quirks=174c:55aa:t - EOF - With generating a new /boot/initrd.img via `update-initramfs` this looks good to me: root# LC_ALL=C dmesg -T | egrep -i 'quirks|reset|SCSI ioctl error' [Fri Mar 12 18:25:56 2021] xhci_hcd 0000:03:00.0: hcc params 0x0200f180 hci version 0x96 quirks 0x0000000000080000 [Fri Mar 12 18:25:57 2021] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 55aa: 2400000 [Fri Mar 12 18:25:57 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:25:57 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:25:58 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:58 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:58 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:59 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:59 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:59 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:25:59 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:00 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:00 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:00 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:00 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:00 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:01 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:02 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:02 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:02 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:02 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:03 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:03 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:03 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:24 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:24 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:29 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:30 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:31 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:39 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:39 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd A1, prog ata_id [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:40 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog hdparm [Fri Mar 12 18:26:43 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:43 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:44 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:26:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:28:09 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartctl [Fri Mar 12 18:28:09 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartctl [Fri Mar 12 18:28:10 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartctl [Fri Mar 12 18:28:11 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog smartctl [Fri Mar 12 18:36:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:49 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd [Fri Mar 12 18:36:50 2021] SCSI ioctl error, cmd 85, prog pool-udisksd Your diff now should say; s/SCSI ioctl error/SCSI ioctl info'. Alan, so "t" flags should be added as a quirks to linux-kernel sources... t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) commands, uas only); ...for my ASMedia USB-3.0 controller? - Sedat -