Date   : Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:08 +0100
From   : chris.priest@... (Chris Priest)
Subject: IDE Interface and Level 3

> WFSInit program that reads the disk size if it can't read the disk
> geometry. I've tested it on a 258M IDE drive - god, it takes ages
> to initialise, but it works. It may also work for a GoMMC drive.
>  
> As it reads the disk size from the ADFS free space map, it needs
> to be run on a completely blank freshly initialised drive. Once
> WFSInit has been run it reduces the claimed disk size, so if you
> run it twice, the second time it will think it's using a 32K hard
> drive!
>  
>   
Ah thats interesting, I built the interface this weekend and hooked a 
conner 540mb drive up to it, as expected, I was only able to format the 
drive to 280odd MB, I had copied over the welcome disk to the drive to 
test it out and forgetting this was on there, proceeded to use WFSinit , 
this was the original version, not your tweaked version, to partition 
the drive, this appeared to go OK, but I never actually checked the size :)

I booted up from the L3 floppy and it happily used the hard drive as the 
data disc.

So, If you are saying that the modified WFSInit requires a completely 
blank ADFS drive, I would not be able to have an ADFS partition on the 
drive and boot the L3 fileserver software from the Hard Disc?

I would still have to continue booting from the floppy?

Best Regards
Chris