On 19 Dec 97 10:10am, Chris Holten wrote to George Fliger:
 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.
 CH> That's probably one of the growing number of reasons a very
 CH> large portion of Novell's customer base is moving on to other
 CH> more flexible NOS. Novell's methodology and attitude is
 CH> archaic. It's showing up quite well in thier financial reports.
 CH> However, IDE does now and has always worked just fine with
 CH> Novell, even ELS 2.X (with special drivers for largers than
 CH> 512meg drives). On 10BT and probably even small 100bt networks
 CH> it's probably a false economy to think you *have* to have a
 CH> busmaster SCSI setup to saturate a 10BT bandwith. Of course if
 CH> you are spending some one else's money and they don't care....
 CH> The Ultra DMA busmaster IDE drives will work with very similiar
 CH> performance to a good SCSI setup. Might be you want to review
 CH> the changes that have occurred in ATBUS drives since 1991.
 CH> You'll find it interesting.
I have and I still stand by my convictions.
All the best to you in your IDE endeavors.
George
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