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From: rickm@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Server freezing on Netware LAN
Message-ID: <206@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 89 08:46:44 GMT
References: <113@cs.columbia.edu> <1317@csm9a.UUCP>
Organization: University of Oregon
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In article <1317@csm9a.UUCP>, japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
> In article <113@cs.columbia.edu>, benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly) writes:
>> I have been having problems with a Novell Netware server freezing intermittently.  I have not yet been able to discern a pattern -- there don't seem to be any
>> large print jobs, nor large data transfers going on.  The server is an AST
>> Premium 286, running Advanced Netware 286 v2.0a.  The only thing that I can
>> do is to re-boot the server.
> 
> I had the same problem on two other machines... the problem appears to be a
> bug in 2.0a when using certain ethernet cards...
> Both servers that had this problem were using 3COM Etherlink Plus cards
> (3c505 I beleive) and when we replaced it with a standard Etherlink (3c501)
> card the problem disappeared (along with the throughput)... neither Novell
> or our dealer would ever acknowledge the problem... but when we upgraded
> one of our servers to 2.12 we put the Etherlink Plus card back in AND IT
> WORKED... for a non-existant bug they did a good job of fixing it!!!

We had the same problem with AST/286 server and Etherlink Plus.  It ran OK at 8
MHZ but froze intermittently at higher speeds.  We have gone to using NP600s in
servers with very good results.