Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!inf2hro!news
From: uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with ESDI drive and WD1007A-WA2
Date: 28 Feb 1996 18:51:01 GMT
Organization: University of Rostock, Germany
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <4h286l$gji@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de>
References: <4gnqrr$dh9@erinews.ericsson.se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3
In-Reply-To: <4gnqrr$dh9@erinews.ericsson.se>
To: etxsral@tnstp.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson)
Hello!
In article <4gnqrr$dh9@erinews.ericsson.se>,
etxsral@tnstp.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson) writes:
>I have a WD1007A-WA2 ESDI controller and a Micropolis
>380 Mbyte disk which I'm trying to install FreeBSD-2.10 on.
>
>But I'm having big trouble with this and I think it's the
>old problem with sector translation and spare sector mapping.
>I have been able to run older versions of FreeBSD,NetBSD on this
>configuration but I can't get this new version to work.
>
>Any hints,tips etc. on how to get this thing working
>is most welcome.
I'm using a WD1007-SV2 (if I remember right) ESDI controller with an
Seagate WREN6 640 MB disk. The tric is to enable the BIOS, select NO
spare sector and choose the 63 sec/trac 16 heads translation. After
this I can install FreeBSD-2.0.5 without any trouble.
Regards
Lars
--
____________________________________________________________________________
Lars Köller Phone: +49 381/498-1665, Fax: -1667
Universität Rostock (Germany) E-Mail:
Fachbereich Physik Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE
Universitätsplatz 3 Anonymous ftp:
18051 Rostock ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de/pub