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From: mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: IDE, NOVELL, and DMN
Message-ID: <1049@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 17:11:19 GMT
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Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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noyce@incstar.uucp writes:

>IDE drives, Novell 2.15 Advanced, and Disk Manager 3.11 (DMN).

>Does it work?  Comments/Suggestions are welcome.

Should work. Only problem is, if you have so called 'AUTO'-type AT-
harddisk. It means, that we have written parameters of the current
harddisk to SECTOR 2 / TRACK 0. In the setup, the type is 'AUTO'
and during we boot up the machine, BIOS reads those values from
SECTOR 2 and use them. (This AUTO-mode is IBM-standard).

The problems comes when we are using this AUTO mode, because NOVELL
writes it's own information over that area. I haven't test the 386/
Novell, where might be possibilities to fit that problem. In theory
it should work when we create a DOS-partition to the beginning of the
HD (and it would 'save' that area). But this is nor possible in 2.15.
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