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- TECHNICAL BULLETIN
- Bulletin 280
- January 3, 1991
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- Disk Coprocessor Board Upgrade for NetWare 386 v3.10
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- NetWare users who are upgrading to 386 v3.10 may need to upgrade their
- Novell Disk Coprocessor Boards (DCB).
-
- NetWare 386 v3.10 was written to support the latest in hardware technology.
- This includes DCBs with revision E or higher of the DCB firmware. DCBs
- with firmware revision D or earlier will not work with NetWare 386 v3.10.
- Under NetWare 386 v3.10, the hard drives will not be visible to the system
- when using these older revisions. This will generally affect 50-pin DCBs
- that are a few years old.
-
- The revision of the DCB firmware is identified at location 817-186 at the
- bottom left of the board; the firmware revision will not necessarily
- correspond to the DCB board revision number. Location 817-186 will contain
- a 28-pin chip identified by part number 817-186-001. The revision level
- will follow the part number (i.e. 817-186-001E or 817-186-001 rev E). If
- the revision level is D or earlier, an upgrade is necessary.
-
- An upgrade to a DCB with the latest firmware revision is available through
- Federal Technologies RMA Department at (800)-366-4526.