The controller has entered a "safe mode" because it cannot find or initialize the storage media.
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, which is high-performance hardware designed for USB 3.2 Gen 1 applications. Performance Capability
Silicon Motion designed the SM3280 to be the "gold standard" for USB flash drives (UFDs). Its job is to manage the complex dance of reading and writing data across flash memory channels while using a powerful ECC (Error Correction Code) engine