I added the dmesq output from linux console:
As it looks the drive is properly detected as 3.0 harddisk storage but the xhci driver failes later.
[ 1277.537952] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 1307.598576] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2773
[ 1307.598586] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1307.599697] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 1307.602582] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[ 1308.604063] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST3000DM 001-1CH166 CC24 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 1308.604586] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 1308.604895] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
[ 1308.605246] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[ 1308.605553] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1308.605564] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 1308.606205] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 1308.606216] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1339.255910] usb 2-2: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 1344.273830] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 1344.426121] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep ffff880211a5ec80