Yes, its a kernel thing… Old kernels work, newer dont.
And not only WD drives, but Samsung and Seagate are affected ( on different motherboards).
Btw.: NVMe drives (M.2) are not affected…
Next:
may be an issue of quemu (udisk2 complains)
`Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE to '/dev/sr0 · Issue #732 · storaged-project/udisks · GitHub
EDIT:
Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY DEVICE to '/dev/sda': Unexpected sense data returned since kernel 6.10.3 update · Issue #1305 · storaged-project/udisks · GitHub