Re: System hangs when using USB 3.0 HD with on Ubuntu

Jonas Schwertfeger
2010-04-12T07:48:25Z

On 04/09/2010 11:54 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote:
>> Now that you mention it, we don't know what sort of chip you have.
>> Only that the vendor ID is 0x0411 (MelCo., Inc.) and the product ID is
>> 0x0184.

Buffalo is part of the MelCo Inc. holding.

> I've just opened the case on my Buffalo hard drive, and the circuit just
> says Buffalo. There's an ARM chip and a winbond chip, but not much else
> to identify it. I'll ask around the USB-IF PIL lab to try and get a
> company contact.

The ARM chip in the Buffalo USB3 drive is the USB3-SATA bridge MB86C30A
by Fujitsu:
http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/EDG/binary/pdf/catalogs/a04000431e.pdf

My guess would be that any drive using this chip will choke on the
identify command. Sarah, any chance you could get a contact at Fujitsu?

-Jonas