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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
- and Xenix are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
- Speedstor is a registered trademark of Storage Dimensions; Disk
- Manager is a registered trademark of Ontrack Computer Corporation.
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- WD1006S-WAH
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- Software Installation
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- ...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 THE 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.
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- 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
- STORAGE CONTROLLER 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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- Formatting the drive requires use of one of two software programs:
- The IBM Advanced Diagnostics (or equivalent for AT compatibles) or
- WDFMT. If you do not have WDFMT, you may return to the Main menu and
- choose the Downloadable Software option. We have included the WDFMT
- 2.10 software for your convenience.
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- 1. Insert your system Diagnostic Diskette (or equivalent).
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- 2. Turn on power.
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- 3. Boot diagnostic and select setup option.
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- 4. Set clock, etc.
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- 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.
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- 5. Select proper drive type. Set up the system for the proper
- configuration of diskette and fixed drives, base memory size,
- expansion memory size and display. (Consult your Technical Reference
- Manual.)
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- NOTE
- USE OF ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS (OR SIMILAR PROGRAM FOR IBM-COMPATIBLES)
- IS NECESSARY SINCE THE WD1006-WAH CONTAINS NO ON-BOARD BIOS ROM.
- HOWEVER, IBM ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS WILL NOT FORMAT A DRIVE AT 1:1
- INTERLEAVE. USE OF WDFMT, SPEEDSTOR FROM STORAGE DIMENSIONS, DISK
- MANAGER FROM ONTRACK, OR SIMILAR SOFTWARE IS NECESSARY TO FORMAT THE
- DRIVE AT 1:1 INTERLEAVE. AGAIN, FORMATTING A DRIVE DESTROYS ALL
- DATA. IF YOUR DRIVE CONTAINS USEFUL DATA, BACK UP THE DRIVE BEFORE
- EXECUTING THE LOW LEVEL FORMAT ROUTINE.
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- 6. Insert System Diagnostic Diskette (or equivalent) and execute
- low level Format. Follow instructions in your reference manual.
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- 7. Load and execute the FDISK (to partition your drive). Do a high
- level format using the operating system's "Format C:(D)/S" command.
- Follow instructions in your reference manual.
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- Troubleshooting
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- 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.
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- Problem: Drive does not partition.
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- Cause: Check drive types. Note that drive types for the AT
- and AT-compatibles differ.
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- Problem: "Error Reading Fixed Disk" appears when booting from
- hard drive.
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- Cause: DOS partition not active.
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- Problem: Winchester activity LED continuously lit.
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- Cause: No problem. Drive LED selected for latched mode.
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- Problem: DOS returns a seek or ID not found error.
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- Cause: One possible cause of this problem is a minor incompati-
- bility between the WD1006S-WAH and the older WD1003-WAH.
- If the drive has more than eight heads (for instance, a 16
- head drive), the WD1003-WAH numbers heads 8 through 15 as
- 0 thrugh 7 in the media's ID fields. Contrawise, the
- WD1006-WAH numbers heads 8 through 15 as 8 thorugh 15. To
- solve the problem, back up and reformat the drive. This
- is not manifested in drives with less than eight heads.
- If this is not the cause of the error, then you have a
- drive problem.
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- Problem: Slow and inefficient operation.
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- Cause: The biggest cause 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.
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