Asmedia ASM235CM Issue

[symbios24]

Describe the bug

Hello

I have a USB 3.0 NATEC NKZ-0448 3.5" sata hard drive enclosure

With Asmedia ASM235CM Chipset

In a Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB rev1.4 With latest firmware/bootloader 2022-04-26

And upon using a mechanical 3.5" hard disk drive to boot from the perfomance is very poor/slow

I disabled UASP with quirks but that didn't help I changed the case USB cable and the PSU that didn't help either.

Tried many different hard drives the results were always the same

Tried another case i have that is USB 2.0 and the hard drive there worked way faster/normal even if its USB 2.0

hdparm is reporting speeds of 80/100mb/sec but the Chipset/Case is like its delaying/lagging the hdd operations the perfomance feels like 5/10mb/sec Its slower than the sdr25 card reader in previous raspberry pi models.

The same case in my windows computer works normal without delaying.

Is this a known incomparability with Asmedia ASM235CM Chipset ??

Thanks

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

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Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 4 Mod. B

Bootloader configuration.

No modifications

System

Raspbian Buster Lite latest version

Bootloader logs

No response

USB boot

NATEC NKZ-0448 3.5 hard drive enclosure

With Asmedia ASM235CM Chipset

lsub/lsusb -t / usb-devices info under:

raspberrypi:~ $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:7403 Microdia Foot Switch Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsusb -t /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M | Port 2: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=uas, 5000M /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/1p, 480M | Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 480M | Port 4: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M | Port 4: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M pi@raspberrypi:~ $ usb-devices

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 1 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0002 Rev=05.10 S: Manufacturer=Linux 5.10.43v64 xhci-hcd S: Product=xHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:01:00.0 C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 4 D: Ver= 2.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=2109 ProdID=3431 Rev=04.21 S: Product=USB2.0 Hub C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=03 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0c45 ProdID=7403 Rev=00.01 S: Manufacturer=SONiX S: Product=USB Device C: #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=usbhid I: If#=0x1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid

T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=5000 MxCh= 4 D: Ver= 3.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=03 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0003 Rev=05.10 S: Manufacturer=Linux 5.10.43v64 xhci-hcd S: Product=xHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:01:00.0 C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=5000 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 3.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=174c ProdID=55aa Rev=01.00 S: Manufacturer=ASMedia S: Product=USB 3.1 Storage Device S: SerialNumber=0000000000C7 C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=0mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 1 #EPs= 4 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=62 Driver=uas pi@raspberrypi:~ $

NVMe boot

No response

Network (TFTP boot)

No response

[lurch]

If Linux has successfully booted, this might be an issue for https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues rather than rpi-eeprom ?

[symbios24]

Linux is booted the problem is very complicated,if you can explain to me why all the usb 3.0 cases 3.5" and 2.5" if you put mechanical hard disk drive it goes slower than the card reader of Raspberry Pi 3?? And i tried many hdds not just one in different cases always the same result.all cases with different chipsets,asmedia jmicron,via, initio etc. In sdds the work ok,in normal hdds is a nightmare the delay on the hard drive is very large.eg: tried simple operations like apt upgrade.are you aware of this problem??

[pelwell]

Please continue the discussion in the Linux issue you created: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5076

(But I disagree with your classification of apt upgrade as a "simple operation" - in my experience this is one of the heaviest operations the average user is likely to run on a storage device).

[symbios24]

Even so i installed manual small packages it was the same,that heavy operation with a usb 2 case took 5 mins and with a usb 3 like forever

[pelwell]

Yes, you clearly have a problem, but it's not with the EEPROM.

[symbios24]

Thanks for your time,i think the problem is general not just mine