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Why doesn't the Scanlogic SL11R-IDE USB-to-ATA adapter work?

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I am trying to recover data from an old Linux that was installed in a computer on an ATA hard drive. I found a ScanLogic Corp. SL11R-IDE IDE Bridge (04ce:0002), an ATA adapter to USB 1.0 like the one in the picture:

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and after switching it on, I plugged it into a laptop with Ubuntu 12.04. I am used to the drives being automatically mounted, but this one doesn't show up in /media. After doing a dmesg, all I got is this:

[215298.671924] usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

[215298.767330] scsi19 : usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0

[215299.841701] usb 2-1.1: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

[215300.017258] usb 2-1.1: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

[215300.197050] usb 2-1.1: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

[215300.372730] usb 2-1.1: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd

I tried plugging in the adapter to the three different USB ports in my laptop (one of them USB 3.0), but got no luck with any of them. I get different devices under, for example: /dev/bus/usb/003/002 or /dev/bus/usb/002/004, but I don't get any /dev/sdbN links. The output blkid -o list -c /dev/null is just the laptop's partitions.

I have tried taking out the jumper, putting it as master and as CS Enabled, but didn't change the result.

If I plug it into a Windows7 laptop, the device is recognised but nothing is mounted. When I plug it into the Windows7 laptop and connect the device to a VMWare Ubuntu 12.04 session running on Windows7, I get the same results as with the Ubuntu laptop -- the dmesg results as above, but it is not mounted.

Any ideas?

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answered 3 Years ago truwom · Accepted Answer

The problem is that your USB-IDE chipset is very old and known to be broken (buggy) :

Your adapter uses the USB 1.0 Scanlogic (now Cypress Semiconductor) SL11RIDE chipset
- This chipset was released sixteen years ago, in 1996-97
- The version you have may not even fully support the USB Mass-storage standard, which was only finalized in 1999.

Even within a few years of release, the SL11RIDE was known to be problematic with IDE hard drives (but worked with optical drives): example

Its USB implementation is known to be broken, requiring special fixes in the kernel -- see this Ubuntu bug from 8.10

Upgrading the firmware may work, but there are two problems;
- It requires Windows XP or lower
- The firmware seems to be unavailable any more (see instructions at page 9 of this PDF)

Simple solution

The simplest solution, therefore, appears to be to purchase a new USB-to-IDE adapter which is relatively cheap. If you can tell us your country of residence, I can try to recommend an available vendor/device which is known to work well with Linux.

Alternative solution: rebuild usb kernel modules after patching "unusual devices" and hope it works

Please add a comment if you need more detailed instructions

Get the Ubuntu kernel source

Change to the linux-3.2.0 directory

In the drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h file, find this part:



UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x04ce, 0x0002, 0x026c, 0x026c,

            "ScanLogic",

            "SL11R-IDE",

            USB_SC_DEVICE, USB_PR_DEVICE, NULL,

            US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY),

and edit it to change the first 0x026c to 0x0000, i.e. the line should read:
```
UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x04ce, 0x0002, 0x0000, 0x026c,
```

Then rebuild the USB storage modules and move the .ko files to the appropriate kernel under /lib/modules. This patch allows the unusual "fixes" to apply to all firmware versions of the SL11RIDE, not just firmware versions 2.xxx.