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From: dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with WDXT-GEN2 plus controller card
Message-ID: <1187@westmark.WESTMARK.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 22:56:29 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.174736.13809@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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In article <1990Oct8.174736.13809@eng.umd.edu>, lidl@eng.umd.edu (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
...
> Now the problem starts...  The WDXT controller (8-bit) has mondo number
> of jumpers, but *no documentation*!  I know that the "normal" PC needs
> to have the hard disk controller jumpered in as int 5, dma level 2,
> but I'll be damned if I can figure this beastie out.


Leave everything as the factory did.  Install the board, and connect
your hard disk.  Boot MS-DOS from diskette, and invoke debug.  Using
debug, execute the code in the WDXT-GEN rom, by typing:
g=c800:5

The rom-based configuration code will ask you about your hard disk
(heads, cylinders, etc) and will then low-level-format the drive,
and store the configuration parameters somewhere on the disk.  You
shouldn't need to adjust any jumpers, unless you're trying to run
two of them in the same XT chassis!

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