On 12/09/2015 09:58 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
  And this is whst I do/did. The drive supports LBA. I
also tried CHS
 with it and oft course i used cyl 0, head 0 and sector 1 without
 success.
 I now ordered a cheap chinese LA 
When you say that you get an error, exactly what is the error (status
bytes)?   Before you issue the command, exactly what do the drive
registers contain?
--Chuck