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> (please never send out html only emails, it's considered very bad style
> on this list)
>
> Sounds like you need a quirk/blacklist entry for that drive, if it
> doesn't support 0x00 as meaning 256 sectors. If you are using libata,
> you can add a ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128 entry to ata_device_blacklist[] in
> drivers/ata/libata-core.c
>   
I'm using IDE driver instead of HD driver.