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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Need space - ESDI/SCSI conflicts?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.141605.1893@techbook.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 14:16:05 GMT
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In article <91042.13420734HLEFG@CMUVM.BITNET> 34HLEFG@CMUVM.BITNET (Mark Strandskov) writes:
>I have a client who purchased a IBM Model 80-071 with a second 71 Meg
>ESDI drive.  They are running SFT Netware v2.15 and they have already
>run out of space.  They are currently mirroring the two drives and
>would like to continue to do so.  Now, it is obvious that they need
>more space and they were thinking of getting larger SCSI drives.
>I have heard that Netware has a problem with having both ESDI and
>SCSI controllers in the fileserver.  They certainly don't want to
>scrap both ESDI drives if they don't have to.  Does anyone know if
>this is true?  I would also appreciate any recommendations on disk
>drive subsystems.  They will be probably looking at two 300 Meg
>SCSI drives.
>

Netware will support both ESDI and SCSI drives in a single file server.
The problems you *MAY* encounter relate to running out of FSPs.  While 
the discussion of FSPs is a long one, let it suffice to say, he'd be
better of just going to a single method of disk I/O, say all SCSI.
Regarding disk subsystems that are approved... You can check with
NETWIRE regarding the list of IMSP reports, they will contain the 
approved hardware listings.

Ken


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