> It is clear to me that the drive cannot handle the lba addressing
> but found no way to disable it. The drive works flawless with
> kernels before lba addressing was added.

Does your BIOS CMOS have a way to toggle LBA addressing?  You must
turn it off if you are running a unix according to Western Digital.

They have a fax-back service that I found that gave me this
documentation.  If you want I can look over the faxes when I get home
to find this number for you.  Please send me a reminder at this
address: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov if you want me to go
looking.

~Ken