Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Advanced Netware and MFM Message-ID: <1991Apr4.120205.3323@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 4 Apr 91 12:02:05 +1200 References: <1991Mar27.134625.10659@isc.rit.edu> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 21 In article <1991Mar27.134625.10659@isc.rit.edu>, res8595@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (SCIPIONI, RE) writes: > We're setting up a small office LAN, and are planning on installing Advanced > Netware. The vendors we've talked to are saying that we have to use MFM drives > Is this true? Thanks in advance. Your vendor is a bozo! There I said it! Netware can use any type of drive that you can get a driver for. This includes SCSI, ESDI, IDE (Some have reported problems with these) etc. We use SCSI and ESDI drives here (5 SCSI machines 1 ESDI machine) and one other department is using an IDE drive. -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================