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[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN], 2004-10-18]
>  dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/null
>
>  If it succeeds without errors, you should also be able to write the entire
>  disk.

It is not possible that the controller will rotate when it reaches its
28bit address barrier, and that the controller will return the first part
of the disk, when asking for the last?

Svein Halvor