Hallo Mike
 MB> Mufutau Towobola wrote in a message to All:
 MT> Is anyone here using the new Western Digital EIDE 6.4gig
 MT> hard drive on their Novell Netware v3.12 or 4.1x server?
 MT> Please how is the performance or if there is anything I
 MT> should watch-out for. Thanks. 
 MB> In general, IDE/EIDE drives on NetWare servers should 
 MB> be avoided.  They tie up the CPU while doing I/O, and 
 MB> cannot offload processng as SCSI drives can.
You will find that there are a lot servers running ide systems
I also have a 386dx  25 mhz  8 megs of ram with 
a RLL controller card running 2   72 meg hard disks (110 megs each)
using novel 4,1 server    and it works very well.
Harry
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