On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:58:21PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 21:20 +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote: > OK, this looks like some type of problem with a USB enclosure. It's > probably misreporting something in the mode pages. can you run sg_ses > on whatever /dev/sg the enclosure turns up as? root@glen:/tmp/report# cat sg_ses_usb_hd.txt WD My Passport 0820 1007 disk device (not an enclosure) Supported diagnostic pages: Supported Diagnostic Pages [sdp] [0x0] Short Enclosure Status (SES) [ses] [0x8] [0x80] [0x83] [0x84] [0x85] By the way, same issue with kernel 4.3 (6a13feb9c82803e2b815eca72fa7a9f5561d7861). Attached the dmesg output. Thanks a lot, Andrea