From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 12:00:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA26611 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:00:11 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26605 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 12:00:10 -0700 Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA02039; Thu, 6 Jul 95 14:59:36 -0400 Received: by exalt.x.org id AA08735; Thu, 6 Jul 95 14:59:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9507061859.AA08735@exalt.x.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stability/Usability of 2.0.5R In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 06 Jul 1995 13:46:16 EST. Organization: X Consortium Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 14:59:34 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > :> I have one question for these people installing FreeBSD on ESDI... how > :> is the drive formatted? Did you use the WD BIOS or something like > :> DiskManager? > For years I used a Fastor ESDI controller on a Micropolis 330M drive under 386BSD-0.1 and FreeBSD-1.X. Fastor was a short lived company in Silicon Valley. I also used a WD1007 (E ???) when I was trying to diagnose my dieing system by swapping components. Both controller bios have an option to translate the drive to a "normal" geometry. Neither controller had a "perfect media" jumper or bios setting that I can recall. Both cards are pretty typical ISA-type controllers. To do low-level formats, enable geometry translation, and surface scans you need MS-DOS/debug -- enter g=c800:5 (or similar depending on the card, i.e. if it has jumpers for setting the ROM base address, etc., use that address instead; e.g. g=c500:5.) That'll bring up a set of menus and it should be pretty obvious from there on. After that you just disklabel it and newfs it. I never used DiskManager, or anything like it. Not sure what those would have been for OS/2 and {386,Free}BSD. OS/2, since 2.0 anyway, has never relied on the BIOS for the disk, and I could have used the drive in untranslated mode if I wanted. I only used translated mode because 386BSD needed it. Can't say as I remember what FreeBSD needed, I probably just left it when I switched to FreeBSD. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY -