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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!jadpc!jdeitch From: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com (Jim Deitch) Subject: Re: Problems with ESDI drive and WD1007A-WA2 Message-ID: <Dno95E.4tL@jadpc.jd.com> Organization: J. Deitch & Associates, San Diego, CA. References: <4gnqrr$dh9@erinews.ericsson.se> <4h286l$gji@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 03:17:37 GMT Lines: 35 In article <4h286l$gji@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de>, Lars Koeller <uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> wrote: > > Hello! > >In article <4gnqrr$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 > > And make sure you use the bios format routine. Jim -- INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com UUCP: cg57!jadpc!jdeitch