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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