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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: disk driver problems with 3.11
- Message-ID: <128.2b508908@forthd.uucp>
- From: johnl@forthd.uucp (John Lebert)
- Date: 10 Jan 93 20:37:28 GMT
- Reply-To: johnl@espace
- References: <93008.104248RPT359@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- Organization: Fourth Dimension, Portland OR
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- In article <93008.104248RPT359@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, <RPT359@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- > Has anyone had problems with disk access in 3.11? I have an ST1100 80M
- > Seagate running off a WD 1006 controller card in a 386DX clone (AT bus).
- > I successfully loaded the ISADISK driver supplied by Novell. INSTALL
- > loads correctly, but as soon as I try to access the disk, I get
- > "No Accessible Disks Available" message after several seconds of
- > system drive access. Apparently Novell can talk to the controller, but
- > not the disk. Both Seagate and Western Digital swear total compatibility
- > with Novell. I have downloaded and tried a newer version of ISADISK
- > dated 7/92, with the same results. DOS 5.0 formats and accesses entire
- > disk with no problems. Any suggestions, please mail to
- > RPT359@MAINE.MAINE.EDU. Thanks.
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- Unless it has changed, I was told to use DOS 3.31 when setting up the
- the disk before installing Netware. 5.0 apparently use a different
- disk structure & has caused problems with network drives. My first
- experience with this involved my netware partition disappearing after
- 3 days of use.
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