Stefan Piperov

This could be related to (or is the root cause of) the observed problems, reported recently by CMS users, of datasets not getting automatically transferred to RSEs, when being added...

@ericvaandering Correct. I use 'Datasets' in the CMS sense here. Proper Rucio term would be 'Container'.

After the CMS users reported the problem I repeated the procedure described above twice, with the exact same result. That's what I mean by reproducible. Of course all those tests...

Did some experimenting with my WD MyBook Duo today (after disassembling and reassembling it, to confirm the presence of the JMS561 chip on the board). Moved one of the disks...

@themaddoctor `badblocks` is very useful for writing blocks filled with bit-patterns on the disk (through its `-t` option). Not only it writes them on the device, but afterwards it reads...

P.S. If it is of any help, I wrote a block of ones (0xFF), zero-ones (0x55) and one-zeroes (0xAA) to the disk while in the Duo, to see how they...

PP.S. I never stated this explicitly, but for the record - my MyBookDuo is set to JBOD mode, using the WD-provided tools, in Win7.

@themaddoctor One more test: While the disk was in the Duo, I created a GPT partition table, and created the following partitions: ` gdisk -l /dev/sdi ` > GPT fdisk...

Argh... The formatting looks awful, but I don't see how else to do it. Sorry. Hope it is readable.

The work-around documented in this PR works fine on a DELL 5285 2-in-1 laptop/tablet which has Debian 12 installed on 3 partitions ('/boot/', '/' and swap), and a 4th partition...