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From: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Novell -- Disk storage requirements
Keywords: ESDI
Message-ID: <1905@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 14:19:04 GMT
References: <3510@ddsw1.MCS.COM:
Reply-To: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <3510@ddsw1.MCS.COM: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
:We are in the process of evaluating Novell and others for a network.
:
:I wish to use Novell with an ESDI controller and drive.  These controllers
:build a disk parameter block during the POST sequence, effectively
:"overriding" the disk type set in the ROM (you set the ROM type to "1" in
:all cases).  For example, you may end up with a "virtual" disk configuration
:of 630 cylinders, 15 heads, and 63 sectors per track.  The controllers are 
:register compatible with the WD1003 (specifically, a WD1007A-WA2 with
:Maxstor XT4380E drive).
:
:Will Novell V2.15 (Advanced netware and SFT netware) run under these
:circumstances?  Or am I still screwed?

We use WD1007A-WA2 controllers with Micropolis 1558 drives on SFT Netware
2.11 through SFT 2.15 with no problems.
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