I had the same error including some sporadic S.M.A.R.T. Alerts that it won't work on this hdd. After your tips i found out that the circuit board for this bay had a failure. As i connected the hdd directly to the controller everything works fine. So thank you.
It irritates me that i don't get an alert for those error messages. The smart alert could come only once a day but when i look on the system there where hundreds of error messages.