Anyway what's the point? All you'll succeeded in doing is demonstrating that there's a bug in the USB3/SATA2 bridge that causes it to crash under heavy write stress. It's a problem for JMicron to fix. I sent them an email on the off chance that it will reach the right people. Since they're a biz-to-biz tech shop it is conceivable. Probably the trouble ticket I opened with WD will go to the same circular file where all customer service requests at big corporations go. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html