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This was reported several times now on WDMarvel forum as well. People do get intro trouble when running ARCO on USB only PCBs drives if they don't convert to SATA as the USB-ATA pass-through will not work if the drive drops to safe mode.
I don't have any USB only drives other than the two SED locked drives, so I cannot confirm if it is possible or not on one of the ones that is not encrypted. I do know that I have two older passports that are just SATA with a USB adapter board, and I can communicate with them via USB when they are in kernel mode. In Linux is it possible to claim a USB interface and perform raw commands, which is how I did that.
But none of that matters, as my goal was the SED locked drives, and they don't work like that.