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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/esdi.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/esdi.sgml index 6d2c3de..dee7b44 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/esdi.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/esdi.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Id: esdi.sgml,v 1.1 1995/09/25 04:53:30 jfieber Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: esdi.sgml,v 1.2 1995/10/07 04:31:20 jfieber Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> <!-- @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ </abstract> --> - <sect><heading>ESDI hard disks and FreeBSD<label id="esdi"></heading> + <sect1><heading>Using ESDI hard disks<label id="esdi"></heading> <p><em>Copyright © 1995, &a.wilko;.<newline>24 September 1995.</em> @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ the availability of free or cheap surplus drives makes them ideal for low (or now) budget systems. - <sect1><heading>Concepts of ESDI</heading> + <sect2><heading>Concepts of ESDI</heading> <p> - <sect2><heading>Physical connections</heading> + <sect3><heading>Physical connections</heading> <p> The ESDI interface uses two cables connected to each drive. One cable is a 34 pin flatcable edge connector that carries @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ compatibility feature(?) left over from the WD1003 standard that reserves only a single bit for device addressing. - <sect2><heading>Device addressing</heading> + <sect3><heading>Device addressing</heading> <p> On each command cable a maximum of 7 devices and 1 controller can be present. To enable the controller to uniquely @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ two drives/controller maximum the first drive is drive 0, the second is drive 1. - <sect2><heading>Termination</heading> + <sect3><heading>Termination</heading> <p> The daisy chained command cable (the 34 pin cable remember?) needs to be terminated at the last drive on the chain. @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Please note that this implies that the controller must be at one end of the cable and <it>not</it> in the middle. - <sect1><heading>Using ESDI disks with FreeBSD</heading> + <sect2><heading>Using ESDI disks with FreeBSD</heading> <p> Why is ESDI such a pain to get working in the first place? @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The following sections try to list all the pitfalls and solutions. - <sect2><heading>ESDI speed variants</heading> + <sect3><heading>ESDI speed variants</heading> <p> As briefly mentioned before, ESDI comes in two speed flavours. The older drives and controllers use a 10 Mbits/second @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ As always, consult your controller <it>and</it> drive documentation to see if things match. - <sect2><heading>Stay on track</heading> + <sect3><heading>Stay on track</heading> <p> Mainstream ESDI drives use 34 to 36 sectors per track. Most (older) controllers cannot handle more than this @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ or might not work. Give it a try or get another more capable controller. - <sect2><heading>Hard or soft sectoring</heading> + <sect3><heading>Hard or soft sectoring</heading> <p> Most ESDI drives allow hard or soft sectoring to be selected using a jumper. Hard sectoring means that the @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ FreeBSD because you need to re-run the low-level format after each change. - <sect2><heading>Low level formatting</heading> + <sect3><heading>Low level formatting</heading> <p> ESDI drives need to be low level formatted before they are usable. A reformat is needed whenever you figgle @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ and more importantly causes you grief with bad144 (see the section on bad144). - <sect2><heading>Translations</heading> + <sect3><heading>Translations</heading> <p> Translations, although not exclusively a ESDI-only problem, might give you real trouble. @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ read the info and presented itself to the system based on the info from the disk. - <sect2><heading>Spare sectoring</heading> + <sect3><heading>Spare sectoring</heading> <p> Most ESDI controllers offer the possibility to remap bad sectors. During/after the low-level format of the disk bad sectors are @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ whatever it may be called by the controller manufacturer when you want to use the disk for FreeBSD.</em> - <sect2><heading>Bad block handling</heading> + <sect3><heading>Bad block handling</heading> <p> The preceding section leaves us with a problem. The controller's bad block handling is not usable and still FreeBSD's filesystems @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ rather the entire <em>slice</em> that contains the root filesystem. - <sect2><heading>Kernel configuration</heading> + <sect3><heading>Kernel configuration</heading> <p> ESDI disks are handled by the same <it>wd</it>driver as IDE and ST412 MFM disks. The <it>wd</it> driver should work @@ -332,13 +332,13 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 </verb></tscreen> <!-- - <sect2><heading>Tuning your ESDI kernel setup</heading> + <sect3><heading>Tuning your ESDI kernel setup</heading> <p> --> - <sect1><heading>Particulars on ESDI hardware</heading> + <sect2><heading>Particulars on ESDI hardware</heading> <p> - <sect2><heading>Adaptec 2320 controllers</heading> + <sect3><heading>Adaptec 2320 controllers</heading> <p> I succesfully installed FreeBSD onto a ESDI disk controlled by a ACB-2320. No other operating system was present on the disk. @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 All variations should be capable of using 1:1 interleaving. Use 1:1, FreeBSD is fast enough to handle it. - <sect2><heading>Western Digital WD1007 controllers</heading> + <sect3><heading>Western Digital WD1007 controllers</heading> <p> I succesfully installed FreeBSD onto a ESDI disk controlled by a WD1007 controller. To be precise, it was a WD1007-WA2. Other @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 WDFMT.EXE from www.wdc.com Running this formatted my drive just fine. - <sect2><heading>Ultrastor U14F controllers</heading> + <sect3><heading>Ultrastor U14F controllers</heading> <p> According to multiple reports from the net, Ultrastor ESDI boards work OK with FreeBSD. I lack any further info on @@ -390,11 +390,11 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 <!-- - <sect1><heading>Tracking down problems</heading> + <sect2><heading>Tracking down problems</heading> <p> --> - <sect1><heading>Further reading<label id="esdi:further-reading"></> + <sect2><heading>Further reading<label id="esdi:further-reading"></> <p> If you intend to do some serious ESDI hacking, you might want to have the official standard at hand: @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 For info on Western Digital controllers see <htmlurl url="http://www.wdc.com/">. - <sect1>Thanks to... + <sect2>Thanks to... <p> Andrew Gordon for sending me an Adaptec 2320 controller and ESDI disk for testing. |
