Notes about an ORICO enclosure (TX25C3/RTL9201)

This is a Type-C to Type-C enclosure, with the Realtek RTL9201 chipset: 1 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:9201 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL9201 It has support for UASP, TRIM and SMART, but the latter was not mentioned. For SMART, existing versions of smartmontools output the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 root@proxmox:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.11.0-1-pve] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bda:0x9201 (0xf200)] Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary Support for the device was only added in Oct 15, 2024 (Changeset #5621) ...

21 December, 2024 · 1 min · 144 words · dinhcap

Cool Applications and Services

Tools for Windows specifically Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) Open source, one of the most widely used activation script. Used by MS support employees, so why not? The script source code is even hosted on GitHub, which itself is owned & operated by Microsoft. MAS provides activation for nearly all Windows and Office distributions, even ones that you didn’t know existed. They have activation methods different from tools like KMSPico and other volume-based licensing, which is cool. ...

7 May, 2024 · 6 min · 1204 words · dinhcap