IDE Harddrive Upgrade
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test, the system only recognized around 8Gigs out of the 30Gb. Am I
missing any drivers?
Any thoughts or ideas? Is NW312 compatible with UDMA66 and UDMA100?
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Felton Green
>>Am I missing any drivers?
No. Here is the procedure to use that larger EIDE drives:
We strongly recommend that SCSI drives be used BTW, but we also recognize
that the bean counters have control. <sigh>
There is a way, but you'll not like what has to be done.
1. Do NOT use LBA in the bios. Set the option to NORMAL
2. Create a 100 MB Dos drive with Dos 6.22
3. Install Dos
The following will speed up your install process if you have the CD-ROM
copies of NetWare and the 3.2 enhancement pack:
4. Xcopy /v /s /e the Netware.312 directory to the C: drive
5. Xcopy /s /v /e the 32enh directory off the 3.2 enhancement pack CD-ROM
If you xcopy the files to the drive, you'll not need to load the CD-ROM
drivers
6. Install NetWare
7. Create a 500 MB NetWare partition and use the ide.exe update dsk driver
8. Install NetWare by using the install.nlm that is located at:
c:\netware\________\BC
command at the console prompt: load c:\netware.312\________\BC\install.nlm
This will allow you to copy the system files from the C: drive Copy the
system files from the netware.312\english directory
9. Reboot the server
10. Install the 3.2 enhancement pack by using the install/product option and
point the install to c:\32enh
11. When the 3.2 enhancement pack is installed reboot the server
12. Download and install the 3.2 minimum patch listing from here:
http://support.novell.com/misc/patlst.htm
13. When the 3.2 minimum patch list is installed the server.exe file can now
use the HAM drivers that are in the NWPAUP1A.EXE file. This will allow full
use of your EIDE drive.
Now the part you'll not like:
14. Down the server and use the Dos fdisk.exe command to remove the NetWare
partition.
15. Install NetWare
16. Install the 3.2 enhancement pack
17. Install the 3.2 minimum patch list
You may have to perform the lswap procedure to recognize all the ram that is
in your machine also:
The possibility that the server.exe in the DOS partition did not get
updated. This the procedure to update the server.exe:
LSWAP EXE
============
The defaults used in the command lines are from NetWare 4.1x handling so for
the typical 3.12 server update, if it does update automatically, you will
need to not only run it manually, but make sure that you use the correct
path setting. Both LSWAP.EXE and LSWAP.NLM use the same command line
options. First
option specifies the location to LOADER.EXE.
(DEFAULT:C:\NWSERVER\LOADER.EXE).
The second option specifies location to SERVER.EXE or MSERVER.EXE.
(DEFAULT: C:\NWSERVER\SERVER.EXE).
So, it the typical scenario where you need to run this manually from the DOS
prompt in the C:\Server.312 directory, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure that both LSWAP.EXE and LOADER.EXE are in the Server.312
directory.
2) Then use the following command syntax:
LSWAP C:\SERVER.312\LOADER.EXE C:\SERVER.312\SERVER.EXE
3) When this is done, you should end up with a SERVER.EXE with a new date
and a copy of the old server.exe as SERVER.OLD with the old date.
--
Felton Green (SysOp)
Novell Support Connection
Brainshare is coming
Brainshare is COMING!
18 - 23 March 2001
Felton Green
That's ok. 8- )