From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 16:12:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA24786 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:12:32 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA24780 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:12:25 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA25937; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:10:39 +1000 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:10:39 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508222310.JAA25937@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: imb@scgt.oz.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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