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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: IDE, NOVELL, and DMN
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.144337.7303@techbook.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 14:43:37 GMT
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>IDE drives, Novell 2.15 Advanced, and Disk Manager 3.11 (DMN).
>
>Does it work?  Comments/Suggestions are welcome.

IDE drives work with Novell.  You must be sure that the drive type is
set properly in the CMOS.  If the drive type is not available, you can
soft enter it.  If you soft enter it, you must SHADOW the ROM BIOS.  Novell
will complain if it attempts to use a soft entry, so you must lie to 
Novell by shadowing the ROM.  Then it can't tell the difference between
a soft and a hard entry.  If you cannot do either, you can attempt the 
following:

1) Select a drive type that has an equal or greater capacity than the IDE
drive, in your CMOS table.

2) Let the IDE drive do the sector head translation, since it has the smarts
to do it.

3) Specify the NETWARE partition that equals the amount of disk on the drive.

Since NETWARE will not exceed the partition limits, you will work OK.

The best solution is to use a head cyl. combination that exactly matches
the IDE drive.  If all the above fails, you might have to turn to DISKMGR
or some other sector translator.  As to whether or not they work with IDE 
drives is anyones guess.  Anyone from ONTRACK on the net and listening?


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