> > I tried this one some time ago, and had to find out, that I was not able
> to
> > write to the upper cylinders of the disk. You can check this out _before_
> using
> > the drive via dd from /dev/zero to your /dev/drive and look at the
> results.
>
> it seems to work fine for me.
> could it be possible that the chipset that you are using does not support
> disks bigger than 32GB ?
I don't know. I tried once with
00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
and it did not work. I could definitely not write beyond the 32 GB border. I
replaced the mobo then.
Regards,
Stephan
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