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26.Dd August 30, 2004
27.Dt WD 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm wd
31.Nd WD100x compatible hard disk driver
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "wd* at atabus? drive ? flags 0x0000"
34.Cd "wd* at umass?"
35.Cd options WD_SOFTBADSECT
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm wd
39driver supports hard disks that emulate the Western
40Digital WD100x.
41This includes standard MFM, RLL, ESDI, IDE, and EIDE drives.
42.Pp
43The flags are used only with controllers that support DMA operations and
44mode settings (like some pciide controllers).
45The lowest order nibble (rightmost digit) of the flags defines the PIO mode,
46the next four bits define the DMA mode and the third nibble defines the
47UltraDMA mode.
48For each set of four bits, the 3 lower bits define the mode to use
49and the last bit must be set to 1 for this setting to be used.
50For DMA and UDMA, 0xf (1111) means 'disable'.
51For example, a flags value of 0x0fac (1111 1010 1100)
52means 'use PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, disable UltraDMA'.
530x0000 means "use whatever the drive claims to support."
54.Pp
55The kernel configuration option
56.Dq Cd options WD_SOFTBADSECT
57enables a software managed bad-sector list which will prevent further accesses
58to sectors where an unrecoverable read error occurred.
59A user interface is provided by
60.Xr dkctl 8 .
61Unlike the (historical) mechanisms provided by
62.Xr bad144 8
63and
64.Xr badsect 8
65the software list does neither support sector replacement nor is it saved
66across reboots.
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr ata 4 ,
69.Xr intro 4 ,
70.Xr pciide 4 ,
71.Xr scsi 4 ,
72.Xr umass 4 ,
73.Xr wdc 4 ,
74.Xr atactl 8 ,
75.Xr dkctl 8
76.Sh BUGS
77The optional software bad sector list does not interoperate well with
78sector remapping features of modern disks.
79To let the disk remap a sector internally, the software bad sector list
80must be flushed or disabled before.
81