On Sun 22 Dec at 20:45 Rich Wonneberger (1:272/50@fidonet.org) wrote to 
Arthur Marsh:
 RW> *** Quoting Arthur Marsh to Marcus Soares dated 12-15-96 ***
> Assuming that you have an ISA bus or VLB SCSI card, try the following:
> 
> DO NOT load ISA-based disk drivers in STARTUP.NCF
> 
> DO "SET AUTO REGISTER MEMORY ABOVE 16 MEGABYTES = OFF" in STARTUP.NCF
 RW> I thought the VLB cards (and bus's) were 32 bit & the 16 meg 
 RW> problem didnt apply.. I'm gona get an Adaptec 2842 to 
 RW> solve the prob's in Warp 4.0 with more then 16 meg & 
 RW> figur'd it should be the same with Netware..
 RW> Rich
 RW> I-Net   turtil@ny.frontiercomm.net
Well, some drivers (e.g. the later Adaptec 1542x) can be loaded above 16 Meg. 
Without explicit assurance from the vendor or Novell I wasn't game to load 
the BT31X.DSK driver after registering memory.
The trick with NW 3.12 seems to be that if memory isn't registered manually 
in C:\server.312\autoexec.ncf *before* sys is mounted, then NW 3.12 attempts 
to load sys from 16 Meg down, then other volumes below that.
[Our 3.12 server has a Buslogic VLB SCSI controller, a few disks, DAT tape, 
CD-ROM drive, Eicon Packetblaster serial card, 2 attached parallel printers, 
64 Megs of RAM, 3COM 3C5X9 10 Mbit/s and Microdyne NE100I 10/100 Mbit/s 
ethernet cards.
The loaded software includes 3.12 updates including HSM 3.30, MPR 3.0 update 
6, NUC (support for Netware Unix Client), Backup Exec, CD-View, Appletalk 
Print Services. It all seems to be running very happily...]
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