Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:10:39 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: imb@scgt.oz.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <199508222310.JAA25937@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Is there any mechanism by which it is possible to get FreeBSD (-current or >> otherwise) onto a WD1007 controlled drive ? >Yes. It involves jumpers W8 and W14 away from the factory defaults, Are there different jumpers on different WD1007's? For the WD1007V-SE*, W8 controls the BIOS address and W14 doesn't exist, and I think the key settings are W1:J5-6 unjumpered (enable translation: factory default) and possibly W1:J11-12 unjumpered (no alternate sector: factory default) and possibly required but probably irrelevant W1:J9-10 jumpered (force 35 sectors/track for 10Mb/sec drives: NOT factory default). >downloading a format utility from ftp.wdc.com, and low level formatting >the drive (reinstalling everything later). For the WD1007V-SE*, there is a formatting utility in the BIOS ROM, and it works better than the format utility. Low level reformatting should only be necessary if you change the hardware number of sectors/track. Bruce
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