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From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novell and big disk.
Message-ID: <326@execu.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 19:24:58 GMT
Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers
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I've been reading this group for a while, but either I missed it or this hasn't
been discussed in a while.  So, perhaps I can get a bit of help and/or spark
some discussion that might lead me to an answer...

Sitting nearby is a Standard Brand 286 machine we got with the hopes of using
it for a fileserver on a Novell network.  With it we purchased a Maxtor 338M
disk, model XT-4380E.  After a lot of time and crying, we were able to get it
all up and running as an MS-Dos machine.  Ok, fine so far.

Next step was to set it up as a fileserver.  And things fell apart...

After spending a while (mucho hours/days) getting the shells generated, etc,
I tried to Netgen.  What I'm looking at now is:

Abend: Improper ROM Parameter table for AT hard disk controller.

The version of Netware is 4.01.  The controller is an Adaptec.

Anyone know if this is a dead end, or what I might be doing wrong?  Should I
drop back and punt, i.e. get a new disk and controller and make someone here
REAL happy to have a huge disk?

This thing has me quite stumped and frustrated.  Any and all help will be
appreciated.  If there's significant mail or whatever, I'll summarize to the
group, of course.  Thanks in advance for any help whatsoever.

Dewey Henize

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