And this is added to dmesg after I switch off the drive: [ 1229.752560] sd 3:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [ 1229.752640] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 1229.752646] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 1229.753668] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed [ 1229.753674] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 1229.753680] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available. [ 1229.753721] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [ 1229.753726] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 1229.753731] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
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