Hannes, > And once we stop sending I/O to it we'll lose the ability to figure > out that the device switched back to R/W mode. > > (Always assuming that we'll be getting a sense code in the first > place). FWIW, I did get correct sense on all the drives I tested and verified that the code does the right thing. But obviously I have my doubts about $RANDOM_USB_GIZMO. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering