Usb 3 passthrough not working pve5.1

[Cecil]

I'm trying to move a large amount of data on to a new windows 2016 server via usb 3 but I cannot get the host port to pass through.
The last line: usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd just keeps repeating over and over and the drive letter shows up in windows but stops responding when trying to access it.

here is a dmesg log:

[79500.343935] usb 2-6: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[79500.364654] usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3312
[79500.364659] usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[79500.364662] usb 2-6: Product: Expansion Desk
[79500.364664] usb 2-6: Manufacturer: Seagate
[79500.364667] usb 2-6: SerialNumber: NA4KYMV6
[79500.388774] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[79500.396362] scsi host18: uas
[79500.396512] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[79500.397550] scsi 18:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Expansion Desk 0739 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[79500.440312] sd 18:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[79500.491108] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Spinning up disk...
[79505.979778] .
[79507.034880] .
[79508.090372] .
[79509.145837] .
[79510.201028] .
[79511.256724] .
[79512.311388] .
[79513.366745] .
[79514.416212] .
[79515.498109] .
[79516.577045] .
[79516.594019] ready
[79516.594754] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] 1220942645 4096-byte logical blocks: (5.00 TB/4.55 TiB)
[79516.595170] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[79516.595174] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 2b 00 10 08
[79516.596013] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA
[79516.639822] sdc: sdc1
[79516.659154] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[80747.877797] vmbr0: port 2(tap1010i0) entered disabled state
[80791.829330] device tap1010i0 entered promiscuous mode
[80791.854112] vmbr0: port 2(tap1010i0) entered blocking state
[80791.854117] vmbr0: port 2(tap1010i0) entered disabled state
[80791.854647] vmbr0: port 2(tap1010i0) entered blocking state
[80791.854650] vmbr0: port 2(tap1010i0) entered forwarding state
[80792.728093] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[80792.966498] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[80796.227669] usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[80796.437730] usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[80830.035780] usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[80830.175632] usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd


I also tried adding the drive to the running VM with:

# device_add nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci,addr=0x1B,bus=pci.1
# device_add usb-host,bus=xhci.0,vendorid=0x0bc2,productid=0x3312,id=test

based on usb-devices command:
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=05 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=5000 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 3.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0bc2 ProdID=3312 Rev=07.39
S: Manufacturer=Seagate
S: Product=Expansion Desk
S: SerialNumber=NA4KYMV6
C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=8mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usbfs

Attached is a screenshot of the devices showing up but as soon as I add it to the VM I get the same info in dmesg again:
usb 2-6: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd

 

[Cecil]

Quick update that might help.

I have a win7 VM install as a test also so i mapped the same port to it (removed it from the win 2016 VM)
downloaded a generic usb3 driver from lenovo (its a lenovo server) for windows 7 and it worked!

The drive shows up, I can see the files etc and my dmesg log isn't spammed with resets. ?!

The only obvious difference between the VM setups I can think of is that I had to use EFI bios on server 2016 to get GPT disks for the 10 Tb partition.
The windows 7 VM is on default (seabios) .

 

[Cecil]

I notice with the 5.1 update the forum is really busy dealing with issues but does anyone have some ideas of things I can try please?
Or maybe aiddtional commands etc to give more information.

 

[dcsapak]

try to update the usb drivers in the vm in the device manager, apart from that it is hard to say, never had this problem

 

[mac.linux.free]

this helps

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...Driver-for-Intel-7-Series-C216-Chipset-Family

 

[Cecil]

My problem at the moment is I can't even get the windows VM to boot up when I enable the passthrough, it gets stuck trying to figure out the hardware and just never starts up.

There is no updated driver for windows 10 /server 2016 since usb3 is supposed to be native to those OS's.
The link provided is for win7/server2008 and that one works just fine already.
My problem is the server 2016 install.

 

[mac.linux.free]

oh sorry...I do not use 2016 because I migrated all to linux

 

[Joys]

Hi. I have the same problem with a Usb3 Hard disk. Trying with an Usb2 hard disk working fine. Any idea? Thanks.

 

[Cecil]

I have not been playing with it much and basically just gave up.
IT worked perfectly fine in server 2008 and windows 7 but server 2016's built in usb 3 driver does not play well with proxmox. I need to test this again but just haven't had time.