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Xref: sserve comp.periphs:3734 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:54948 comp.unix.bsd:12045 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2697 comp.os.386bsd.misc:401 Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!hobbit.gandalf.ca!dejones From: dejones@gandalf.ca (David E. Jones) Subject: Installing NetBSD on WD1007 ESDI drive Message-ID: <1993May28.011157.19632@gandalf.ca> Summary: It doesn't work - can't read disklabel Keywords: WD1003,ESDI,BSD Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd. Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:11:57 GMT Lines: 29 I am having problems installing NetBSD on a 386 with an ESDI drive. The ESDI drive is a Miniscribe, approx. 318 MB. The only label on it says "type 38". The ESDI controller is a real WD1007. It offers a translated geometry of 617 cyls, 16 heads, 63 sectors. It appears that the drive is actually 1224 cyls, 15 heads, and somewhere around 32 sectors, untranslated. I would like confirmation of these geometries. Does anyone have enough experience with Miniscribe drives to be able to identify the drive in question? In any case, we partitioned the drive and ran the NetBSD install procedure, which copies the core Unix system to the hard disk, except for the kernel. This step appears to proceed without error. We are then to re-boot and copy the kernel onto the hard disk. If I try to do so, the kernel cannot find the DiskLabel information. Funny thing is, the disklabel command has no problem, and the values it reports are the values we used when installing. We think that there may be a problem with getting the disk geometry straight. In addition, we are unsure as to how to configure the ESDI controller. Does the WD1007 do _automatic_ sector translation? This must probably be a hardware function, since BSD does not use the BIOS routines. Just how are we to set up the bad-block remapping? There is a command, "bad144" which does not appear to be much help. Any info from someone who has successfully installed NetBSD on a WD1007 ESDI system would be appreciated. Please email responses, as I don't read these groups.