[coreboot - Bug #175] Most USB3 external disk enclosures do not work with coreboot on X230

[Robert Alessi]

Issue #175 has been updated by Robert Alessi.

Patrick Rudolph wrote in #note-3:
> The RCBA register for USB seems fine, but we don't do that much xhci initialisation in coreboot.
> From the error description I guess it's related to over-current or transmitter margins.

Does this mean the situation is hopeless? As it stands, the problem seems to persist under both
Linux and OpenBSD, which seems to indicate that neither kernel can complete the xhci initialitation.

More information here: https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/120

And here (please read the whole thread): https://marc.info/?t=151482563500001&r=1&w=2

Thank you!

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Bug #175: Most USB3 external disk enclosures do not work with coreboot on X230
https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/175#change-1656

* Author: Tobis Greer
* Status: New
* Priority: Normal
* Start date: 2018-10-16
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I would like to report issues with USB3 external disk enclosures and coreboot on the Lenovo X230.

I have several enclosures, and only one works without issues: Toshiba Stor E Alu 2.5. Every other one will cause the following messages in dmesg over USB3 (USB2 is fine):

```
[   73.788819] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[   73.809949] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0080, idProduct=a001
[   73.809955] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   73.809958] usb 4-2: Product: External USB 3.0
[   73.809961] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
[   73.809964] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 201503310007F
[   73.813049] scsi host8: uas
[   73.813861] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     TO Exter nal USB 3.0      0204 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[   73.814609] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[   73.815157] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
[   73.815161] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] 4096-byte physical blocks
[   73.815326] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   73.815330] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 53 00 00 08
[   73.815659] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   73.819382]  sde: sde1
[   73.820711] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[  105.329243] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 4 inflight: CMD IN 
[  105.329252] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 80 00 01 80 00
[  105.329334] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 3 inflight: CMD IN 
[  105.329342] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 38 00
[  105.345200] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  105.345276] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  105.473565] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  105.495210] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  138.096012] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#5 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 6 inflight: CMD IN 
[  138.096016] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#5 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 09 50 f5 d8 00 00 28 00
[  138.096184] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#4 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 5 inflight: CMD IN 
[  138.096187] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#4 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 09 50 f5 28 00 00 a8 00
[  138.116005] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  138.116027] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  138.244231] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  138.265440] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  168.816132] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#4 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 5 inflight: CMD IN 
[  168.816138] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#4 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 09 50 f7 b8 00 00 48 00
[  168.816174] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 4 inflight: CMD IN 
[  168.816177] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 09 50 f7 28 00 00 80 00
[  168.816208] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 3 inflight: CMD IN 
[  168.816212] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 09 50 f6 68 00 00 b8 00
[  168.832129] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  168.832153] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  168.960341] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  168.981496] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  201.583792] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD IN 
[  201.583796] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 08 00
[  201.599793] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  201.599817] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  201.728046] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  201.749283] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  234.351266] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 4 inflight: CMD IN 
[  234.351270] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#3 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 08 80 00 01 80 00
[  234.351343] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 3 inflight: CMD IN 
[  234.351345] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#2 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 08 40 00 00 38 00
[  234.375267] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  234.375319] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  234.503509] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  234.524774] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  267.118802] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD IN 
[  267.118810] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 0a 00 00 02 00 00
[  267.138781] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  267.138872] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  267.267064] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  267.288888] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
[  297.838883] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD IN 
[  297.838890] sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 60 08 00 00 00 08 00
[  297.854785] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start
[  297.854827] usb 4-2: cmd cmplt err -2
[  297.983104] usb 4-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  298.004091] scsi host8: uas_eh_device_reset_handler success
```

Note that it says it's a Toshiba enclosure but it's not the Stor E Alu 2.5, it's from an Orico 2588US3-V1-BK-PRO with a 2.5" Intel X25M SSD in it.

If I use Lenovo's BIOS, then I don't have any errors at all in dmesg, and I'm able to use the disk normally. With coreboot, I can't mount the disk at all and dmesg gets these error messages continuously.

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.config (22.5 KB)
lenovo_inteltool.txt (117 KB)
cb_inteltool.txt (171 KB)