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- Corporation; IBM PC, AT and XT are registered trademarks of the
- International Business Machines Corporation; MS DOS, OS2 and PC DOS
- are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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- WD1003-WAH
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- Software Installation
-
- ...WARNING..................WARNING......................WARNING...
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- THE FOLLOWING LOW-LEVEL FORMAT PROCEDURE
- WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
- BACK-UP THE DATA ON YOUR DRIVE BEFORE
- CONTINUING WITH LOW LEVEL FORMAT ROUTINE
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-
- The format instructions that you follow are simple procedures to tell
- the computer that you have either one or two Winchester disk drives
- installed and prepares your operating system to recognize the Western
- Digital controller.
-
- You will need to know the parameters of your hard disk drives. As a
- convenience to you, we have included a list of the most common hard
- disk drives and their parameters. To access this list, return to the
- previous menu. If your drive is not listed, contact your drive
- manufacturer or consult your drive manual to determine drive type and
- parameters.
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- 1. Insert your system Diagnostic Diskette (or equivalent).
-
- 2. Turn on power.
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- 3. Boot diagnostic and select setup option.
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- 4. Set clock, etc.
-
- CAUTION
- Avoid system damage by consulting your
- Technical Reference manual to ensure that your
- drive type is supported by your host BIOS drive
- tables. Not all AT-compatibles share the same
- drive tables as IBM.
-
- 5. Select proper drive type. (Consult your Technical Reference
- Manual.)
-
- NOTE
-
- Step 6 requires execution of low level formatting. Use of the IBM
- Advanced Diagnostic (or similar program for IBM-compatibles) is
- necessary since these controllers contain no on-board Basic
- Input/Output System (BIOS) ROM.
-
-
- 6. Insert your Advanced Diagnostic diskette and execute low level
- Format. Follow instructions in your reference manual.
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- 7. Insert System Diagnostic Diskette (or equivalent) after the
- system finishes the low level format.
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- 8. Load and execute the FDISK (to partition your drive) and FORMAT
- (high level format) programs. Follow instructions in your reference
- manual.
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- Troubleshooting
-
- Problem: 1790 Disk 0 Error.
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- Cause: No low level format on hard disk. Wrong drive type
- selected. Not enough drive power. Bad cables. Improper
- drive selection or termination.
-
- Problem: Drive does not partition.
-
- Cause: Check drive types. Note that drive types for the AT
- and AT-compatibles differ.
-
- Problem: "Error Reading Fixed Disk" appears when booting from
- hard drive.
-
- Cause: DOS partition not active.
-
- Problem: Winchester activity LED continuously lit.
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- Cause: No problem. Drive LED selected for latched mode.
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- Problem: For systems with two drives, both Winchester activity
- LEDs light at the same time.
-
- Cause: Improper drive selection or termination. Inspect the
- drive cables. If the data cables are straight, then set
- drive C's drive select switches for drive select 1 and
- drive D's drive select switches for drive select 2. If
- the data cables have a twist, set both drives' select
- switches for drive select 2. Consult your drive manuals
- or dealer for drive switch settings. Finally, under no
- circumstances, use twisted floppy cables for the
- Winchester drive. Floppy and Winchyester drive interface
- connections differ significantly.
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- -2-
- Problem: Slow and inefficient operation.
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- Cause: The biggest culprit for this problem is an incorrect
- interleave factor. Therefore, some experimentation with
- the interleave factor may be necessary. (Refer to the
- format instructions for setting interleave factor).
- Interleave factors are very dependent on the host
- operating system and application.
-
- Problem: Not getting full capacity from drive.
-
- Cause: You may have an RLL type drive. Consult your drive
- manual. The WD1003-WAH is designed for use with MFM
- type drives only. DO NOT USE WITH RLL DRIVES.
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