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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: i486 with Netware 386
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.142012.1978@techbook.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 14:20:12 GMT
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In article <91042.192216ALG106@psuvm.psu.edu> ALG106@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>The company I work for was thinking of getting a new fileserver -
>we currently have a 33MHz 386.  We were thinking of a 33MHz 486 EISA
>bus machine.  However, someone told us that the i486 has a bug in it
>that shows up only when running Netware.
>
>First of all, is this true?  If so, are there plans to fix it?
>
>Any suggestions you may have on a new fileserver would be helpful -
>we were thinking of getting 2 1Gig drives (fault tolerance).
>

There are several i486 systems that are approved for use as a NW fileserver.
Two are 33 Mhz, last I checked.  Most are 25Mhz.  There are reported 
problems using Bustech SCSI controllers on 486 systems running NW 3.1 with
two differing types of ethernet NICs.  So far, we haven't been able to 
isolate the problem to any one device in the machine, but we suspect the
Bustech controller, since we have had other reports as well.  Be sure
to check the IMSP bulletins for approved hardware configurations first.

Ken


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