one more load-cycle-count problem

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Feb 9 00:31:09 UTC 2010


On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Gerrit Kühn wrote:
> :-)))
>
> I would really prefer to be able to set this stuff via camcontrol or
> atacontrol. Alone having to boot DOS with this machine (no floppy, no
> cdrom) will be a real pain. And most probably the DOS tool will not
> be able to see the disks sitting behind my lsi-driven controller
> anyway, so I have to plug them elsewhere, too. Great job, WD. :-(

It does boggle the mind that they don't publish the spec for this :(

I booted off a USB stick (syslinux booting freedos), although the BIOS 
sees my disks.. (Although not all, I had to flash 4, then swap 2 and 
flash the last one.. very stupid)

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