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I'm trying to do make the drive go into PIO mode with hdparm on Linux.

hdparm -X pio0 /dev/sdX

I have tried about 4-5 disks (PATA & SATA). I always get the same error:

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: ...

Ideas? Any other known working alternative method?

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