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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help NOVELL rejecting Hard disk
Message-ID: <14514@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:27:32 GMT
References: <135755@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <135755@kean.ucs.mun.ca> cking@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Carl Roy King) writes:
> I have a question for anyone who has experience with Novell Netware
> 
> We recently acquired a couple of 100 mb drives for our 386 file 
> servers under Novell 2.15.  The problem is that the drives are defined 
> as type 48 ( user defined) and when Novell does a netgen, It reports 
> an invalid CMOS drive type.  Any help of leads would be appreciated.. 

Since the user-defined hard drive types are in RAM not ROM Novell cannot 
read them and returns the error message you've seen.  If your system has 
a shadow BIOS feature try it, it MAY work.
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