[vcf-midatlantic] Help IDing card
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Mar 20 15:26:39 EDT 2017
Wow THAT brings back some memories. But no, that shouldn't work on
this board. That executes the formatter code in the onboard BIOS
extension ROM that's present on XT controllers, but not on (most) AT
controllers. One formats these using external software, originally the
IBM Advanced Diagnostics disk.
If memory serves, the WD1006 is a faster version of the standard
WD1003 MFM controller for the 16-bit ISA bus. while the WD1003 needed
some sector interleaving (at least 3:1, if I remember right) because it
couldn't keep up, the WD1006 could run with no (i.e., "1:1") sector
interleave.
This controller talks to standard MFM drives and does not do RLL.
There are versions of the WD1006 controller that do, however.
This is from very dusty neurons, so be careful.
-Dave
On 03/20/2017 02:58 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Lowe level format
> Debug
> G=C800:5
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:45 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03/20/2017 02:04 PM, Christopher Blackmon via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>> I've got a full length 16-bit ISA card with the part # WD1006V-WA2 on it
>> that I'm
>>> trying to find the spec's for... I've found several that are close via
>> google, but none
>>> that are exact matches. Would anyone happento have some info on this
>> card?
>>
>> A guess (for memory long time ago old): Western Digital Hard Drive
>> interface card. ST-506 (?) insterface. Probably 2 drive interface,
>> each drive needed 1 long and 1 short header cable.
>>
>> I don't know if it supports RLL but I kind of doubt it.
>>
>> I recall jumping into ROM on the card to format the drives. Sorry
>> that's all I have.
>>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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