MT> This message was from MUFUTAU TOWOBOLA to ALL
 MT> Is anyone here using the new Western Digital EIDE 6.4gig hard
 MT> drive on their Novell Netware v3.12 or 4.1x server? Please how
 MT> is the performance or if there is anything I should watch-out
 MT> for. Thanks.
 GF> Since I *NEVER* install nor do I recommend to be installed, IDE drives
 GF> in a fileserver, I couldn't answer that question.
 GF> Novell doesn't recommend IDE for their NOS.  You should really follow
 GF> their guidelines.
That's probably one of the growing number of reasons a very large portion of 
Novell's customer base is moving on to other more flexible NOS. Novell's 
methodology and attitude is archaic. It's showing up quite well in thier 
financial reports.
However, IDE does now and has always worked just fine with Novell, even ELS 
2.X (with special drivers for largers than 512meg drives). On 10BT and 
probably even small 100bt networks it's probably a false economy to think you 
*have* to have a busmaster SCSI setup to saturate a 10BT bandwith. Of course 
if you are spending some one else's money and they don't care....
The Ultra DMA busmaster IDE drives will work with very similiar performance 
to a good SCSI setup. Might be you want to review the changes that have 
occurred in ATBUS drives since 1991. You'll find it interesting.
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