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From: crebettes@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Advanced NetWare installation problem
Message-ID: <1991May16.212700.8179@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 16 May 91 13:26:59 GMT
References: <10883@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <10883@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>, muller@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Francois Muller) writes:
> I have had some problems with the installation of NOVELL Advanced NetWare on
> my 386/33 PC-Clone.
> My PC has got a standard i/o equipment (2 serial cards and 2 parallel) and
> an IDE-based Seagate HDD with 130 MB.
> The installation of SHGEN on the workstation worked well.
> The ethernet cards installation too.
> The Server configuration worked also (I am thinking so).
> The problem arised when I started the NetWare installation.After that I had
> tiped in that I wanted the "standard floppy method" and the default settings,
> the system said that it will check my hard disk and then I got the 
> mysterious error message:"Abend:Improper ROM Parameter table for DISK controller" and the system hung.
> 
> Can somebody explain me this error message and suggest me what to do ?
I have experienced a similar problem when I have attempted to install Novell 286 advanced on an IDE drive configured in the BIOS setup as type 47

It seem Novell does not like type 47 drives.  I cured the problem by installing it in thiws case as a type 9 which was the nearest type to it I
could find.

IDE drives apparantly are re-mapped internally so it really does
not matter too much which drive type you take as long as it is 
no bigger than your drives physical capacity.

In my case I lost 9 megabytes as I had a 106 Meg drive and the
nearest to it was type 9 which was a ninety four meg drive.

The only drives I have found that you can install as user defined
type 47 are ESDI drives and possibly SCSI drives as well, but I
have no experience of those with Novell




> 
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> Bye.