Ah ...
> In DOS mode, this card works like an IDE HDD but the same doesnt
> happens with linux. While DOS fdisk works fine, linux fdisk returns
> the following errors when trying to write the partition table:
>
> Re-reading the partition table
> hda hdb ..
>
> hda:drive_cmd:status=0x51 {DriveReadt SeekComplete Error}
> hda:drive_cmd:error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
>
> The partition table is writen but mkswap returns the same errors!
So does mine. The error return is nonsensical too. As far as I can guess
the hitachi cards dont have a 512 byte block size, but I've yet to manage
to find out.
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