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From: jaj174@sarah.albany.edu (JONES JUSTIN A)
Subject: Re: SystemPro installation question
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.171615.20524@sarah.albany.edu>
Keywords: Disk driver?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
References: <1991Apr30.010858.1101@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 17:16:15 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.010858.1101@spool.cs.wisc.edu> mark@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Spankus) writes:
>Hello,
>	I want to move our Netware 3.1 server software to a Compaq SystemPro
>that has an 800Mb drive and 16 Megs of Ram. I will be using an Etherlink 507 
>network card, with the drivers that came from 3Com. But what I need to know
>is do I need a special hard disk driver to support the SystemPro's hard disk,
>and if so where can these drivers be found?  Otherwise I should be able to
>use one of the standard drivers that Novell provides, right?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance (I hope , I hope...)
>
>
>
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> Mark Spankus                       University of Wisconsin - Madison
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You can use the standard Novell ISA disk driver, but Compaq does provide a 
driver specificly for the SystemPro Disk Array which I believe gives you 
slightly better performance.  It should be available on NetWire (the 
Novell CompuServe Forum).

-JJ